/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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same anon continuing from >>10289011: if your photographer has a lens that allows it, actually move! If your costume or outfit has a skirt, cape, long hair, or anything you can swish around a bit, use it to give that implied movement. If your photographer don't have a lens fast enough or enough light to make it work, you can fake it in several ways. Standing still with your upper body, you can gather a skirt in your hands and twist it around you to one direction. Then 'throw' it with your hands and quickly freeze your arms into position for the photographer to snap a photo while the skirt is still moving (tip: decide how you want to pose your hands first/actually put them there, memorize how it feels, then grab the skirt and have the photographer count down "3 2 1" before you toss it and move your hands into place). It's best if they can take multiple shots through the sequence to select the best frame as well. You can also do this with cape tosses--or even have someone stand just off frame with their arm holding a cape and throw or drop it/draw their arm back quickly while the photographer takes the pic. The best natural looking drape effect of material in motion happens when you drop it from up higher, not throw upward, so if you can have someone hold it high and let go that works best (I do some bridal modeling and this is how you get veil/dress train shots).

Besides moving the costume, move yourself! Walk from spot to spot, keep your arms/hands engaged and in motion so they're never hanging flat, and move where you angle your head. Physically keeping up some slow but steady motion helps you avoid 'unnatural' poses that look uncomfortable on camera after.

I have lots of other tips but I think I'm getting rambly, whoops! Hope some of this helped. This was a costume for the Raven Queen that I made based on The Adventure Zone (though sometimes it only vaguely feels like cosplay... she has no visual media reference so I made it all up but, it was fun).