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Winding this profile down

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I feel my time on this site is over (or this site itself, but I don't want to be too much of a negative person and I wish the best to this community). In the following days I will shrink down the amount of profiles I follow, and remove myself from all DA Groups. I might post a farewell photo, too. I wouldn't blame this on DA itself, but I've grown uninterested in sharing my photography online, and this affects all other platforms as well (FB, IG, 500px, Flickr). I've not lost interest in photography at all: should you ever contact me for a cosplay shooting or whatever else, rest assured I'll answer the call, we will probably find some way to collaborate, and you will receive the photos we shoot together!

That's all, folks. My DA presence is going the way of the dodo.
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DeviantArtist Questionnaire

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First of all, happy birthday to one of the first online communities I've ever joined.

  1. How long have you been on DeviantArt? Since august 2010 with this account, but I had a previous one which I've deleted (I wanted a different name and I changed my focus).

  2. What does your username mean? It's the first widespread type of photography. Excellent definition, cumbersome process, dangerous chemical stuff.

  3. Describe yourself in three words. Probably reliable and predictable to the point of being boring.

  4. Are you left or right handed? Right handed for most of the tasks, included writing and drawing.

  5. What was your first deviation? Can't tell, since I've done a cleanup of older stuff some time ago. This is probably the oldest still standing: 
    Jigen by daguerreoty-pe

  6. What is your favourite type of art to create? Photography. Some months go it could have been Cosplay Photography. Not so sure anymore.

  7. If you could instantly master a different art style, what would it be? I'd say digital painting...

  8. What was your first favourite? Self portrait of my friend ChewedKandi 
    Sharlulz: file + remix by ChewedKandi 

  9. What type of art do you tend to favourite the most? Cosplay photography.

  10. Who is your all-time favourite deviant artist? Very hard to single out one, but Draken413o, iDie, Pugoffka-sama, Kifir and 35ryo are a good start among those I don't know personally. zeropuntosedici, oShadowButterflyo and stregatt0 and EkaCollins are my first choice to spend my time shooting with :-)

  11. If you could meet anyone on DeviantArt in person, who would it be? TaisiaFlyagina, I love her work both as a photographer and a cosplayer, and I'd be honored to have her as a subject and to assist her during one of her shoots.

  12. How has a fellow deviant impacted your life? Many cosplayers showed me that no matter how difficult or seemingly impossible, characters and scenes from videogames, manga and movies can come to live in front of my camera. Among them: lilie-morhiril, falketta, CalipsoCosplay and MarcoVerona86.

  13. What are your preferred tools to create art? My camera, a couple of lenses, a tripod.

  14. What is the most inspirational place for you to create art? Sitting in the driving seat of my car, which is quite a modest one, but that's enough to let me think and come up with new ideas.

  15. What is your favourite DeviantArt memory? Second daily deviation. I was extremely bored: summer, sitting in a hot room while construction workers were demolishing part of my flat to renew the bathroom, waiting there just in case they needed anything. I must have cleared my message queue on DA like four times that morning, out of boredom. I literally had nothing to do but wait for days and answer the occasional question. When I went to DA for the fifth clear in the same morning, I noticed a massive spike in messages: that was the "fav-tide".

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My deviantART Story

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I've subscribed to DA in its early years, probably around 2002, at first it was the place where I went looking for desktop wallpapers for my always evolving Slackware Linux KDE customizations. I did not use my account for anything more than that, or maybe I posted some "spray art" paintings, like this (that's not mine, that's one of the first results I got looking for the same kind of paintings I used to do).

spray paint paintings by yannisart

DA went slowly into oblivion until 2006-2007, when I picked up my first digital camera and started to take some pictures. Back in those days, I used a Sony DSC-F828, and processed my photos with Picasa and Aperture on my first Mac. I used to play World of Warcraft, and one of my guild mates happened to be :iconchewedkandi:, or Delphina. She kind of vaguely kept me in touch with DA: I realized the website was still going strong, active and in good health. Not so common, for a web community, to live for this long and thrive with new content every day. Every hour.
I posted some photos, mostly travel ones, but I didn't have much to show.

The Hunter by ChewedKandi

In late 2008 I started taking my photography hobby more seriously, and I explored more and more communities and possible portfolios. Flickr, 1x, Picasa, name whatever comes to your mind, I've probably checked their sign up page. My interests were in sport photography, mostly ice hockey. In the need of a place where I could upload massive galleries, and protect the download, I went for Zenfolio. Each time I switched to or from some photography genre, DA was a sort of a point of reference: "what are those on DA doing about this or that genre?".

In 2010 I went to a comic convention in my town, to see if I could take some photos of cosplayers. I happened to be very well geared to shoot the cosplay acts, and took photos along the competition. I posted them on Facebook, and linked the album on the event page. In less than one month, I almost tripled my contact list, had four conventions planned and started shooting on-location photo sets. When I got back to DA, I discovered that its cosplay community is extremely active and interesting. DA is probably one the best places to look for inspiration, keep track of what others are doing, and see new things. I decided to create a new account (I don't exactly remember the reason, probably some old limit on name change?) and I started posting my photographs, but, most of all, I lurked in the shadows, watching every single move of hundreds of cosplayers and photographers :D

By the end of 2010 I got my first DD (a non-cosplay one, still one of my favorite photos, taken with a lens I rented for just one day), which made me realize the tremendous amount of people who got in touch with my work. Also, by the end of 2010, I could shoot photos at a private cosplay event, a ball in a castle, where I met most of the people I still hang out with as friends.

Reichstag Dome by daguerreoty-pe

2011 and 2012 marked a transition for me, from event photos to on-location photo sets. I had the luck to shoot with some very good cosplayers, be it on the crafting side and on the interpretation one, and together we could push our limits much further. I also started using more and more artificial light, which initially I didn't like very much. During 2012 I also started attending a foreign convention, Animuc in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, where I discovered an entirely different kind of cosplay act: 1-hour long performances, like a theatre play. I loved that. This got me even more interested, here on DA, into other nations' cosplay.
Tsuki No Senshi's "Trinity Blood" (Animuc 2013) and even more "Hetalia" (Animuc 2014) are definitely masterpieces of their kind. Don't be fooled by the Hetalia you know, that's just a way to draw and dress the characters. This is an entirely different thing.

Hetalia - Never surrender by RoteMamba
Trinity Blood - angelus by NanjoKoji
(yes, this thing was actually on the stage, fighting with Abel and scaring the sh*t out of Vatican and New Human Empire guys and gals)

2013 and 2014 pushed me even more into on-location sets, with :iconlilie-morhiril: taking part in most of the craziest endeavours.
Snowhite Tarsem's Mirror Mirror by lilie-morhiril
I've also resumed posting some landscape and architecture photos, and even some theatre ones, and I've started following some groups for those genres.

I'm not sure what's coming up in the next years, what and if I'll still be shooting, but I hope you'll like what's still on the post-processing queue on my computer :D


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Events for 2014

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During 2014 I will attend the following conventions:

Festival del Fumetto (Novegro, Italy) - february 2nd
Cartoomics (Milan, Italy) - march 15th and 16th
Animuc (Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany) - april 25th to 27th
London MCM Expo (London, UK) - may 24th
San Donà Fumetto (San Donà di Piave, Venice) - october

I might also attend:


Mantova Comics (Mantua, Italy) - march 7th to 9th
Romics - september

Novegro and Mantova are mainly subject to what my friends will do. As for London, the day I book the flights I will move it on the upper part of the list. Romics, finally, is bound to what the organization will do about TV rights. Last year they turned the cosplay competition into a TV show, and this kind of events is usually "rights-managed", so there's no point for me in attending the convention if I am not allowed to shoot and publish pictures of the competition.
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No compositing involved

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Since I am seeing more and more composite cosplay photos, I would like to clarify that none of my pictures so far comes from a compositing process.

I am nowhere that good at photoshop to put a person in a different location without making it seem unrealistic.

All the pictures have been taken in their respective location. If you see a giant spider in a cave, the cave has been selected by a group of speleologists and the spider has been brought there by car and assembled in place. Icy waterfall? Just need a 20 minutes walk in the woods, through the snow, with a long petticoat dress. Huge palace hall? We have many of them, here, so why not drive to one of the best ones and take some pictures there?

This does not mean that I am against composite pictures, I acknowledge that most of the times they are the only viable option to get some context around the characters you are shooting.

However, since I have other viable options, I chose to use them, instead.
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