Remember how I was asked to shoot for the porno cosplay site? (NSFW)

[e.rose]

Of course!! Didn't you read the small print when you agreed to shoot the cosplay with your client?
I mean you did have a contract right - and contracts always have small print so it would have been right there to read!

You can't avoid it forever; sometime you'll have to to the cosplay porno shoot! (unless you want legal bigwigs coming around to deal with matters!)

Dammit. Time to quit while I'm ahead...

Who wants my 5DMkII?



Right? SOMETIMES I manage to make a good decision...

Poor e.rose, she'll never work in [insert town here] again!

I know... my career is OVER.

I think you should have took on the photo shoot and just thought of it as a challenge. You could have Held complete control over all aspects and came out with some outstanding cosplay images. Remember these people that are into cosplay are huge fans and may be willing to shell out a lot of $$$$$$ for great images.

Nope. I don't do porn. And the site she was shooting for is all Cosplay porn.

 

[e.rose]

AND... I've never met a Cosplayer in my old town or this one... that was willing to pay money for a shoot.

I'm sure some are out there, but most I run into want it free.

And to boot this girl is selling the images. I have no idea what her and her photographer worked out there, but that would piss me off.

 

[runnah]

I don't want my name attached to it. That's the harm.

It doesn't have to be in my portfolio for the mother of a potential senior client to run across it in a Google search.

Wear a disguise?

 

[e.rose]

I don't want my name attached to it. That's the harm.

It doesn't have to be in my portfolio for the mother of a potential senior client to run across it in a Google search.

Wear a disguise?

Is the one in my avatar working? DO YOU RECOGNIZE ME RUNNAH?!

 

[Overread17 5]

Point 1: anime is dumb and I hate it.

I don't like you any more :greenpbl:

 

[runnah]

Is the one in my avatar working? DO YOU RECOGNIZE ME RUNNAH?!

I was wondering who that dashing mustachioed fellow was.

 

[runnah]

I don't like you any more :greenpbl:

Anime themed body pillows

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[Overread17 5]

I don't like you any more :greenpbl:

Anime themed body pillows

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So you hate anime because Customs in Imports delayed your specialist orders from Japan?

 

[jake337]

Dammit. Time to quit while I'm ahead...

Who wants my 5DMkII?



Right? SOMETIMES I manage to make a good decision...



I know... my career is OVER.

I think you should have took on the photo shoot and just thought of it as a challenge. You could have Held complete control over all aspects and came out with some outstanding cosplay images. Remember these people that are into cosplay are huge fans and may be willing to shell out a lot of $$$$$$ for great images.

Nope. I don't do porn. And the site she was shooting for is all Cosplay porn.

You misunderstood me. Not all cosplay is porn. If you search cosplay on flickr there is actually hardly any nudes. I would have told her I would do it with no nudes and total creative control over the whole shoot.


The fact that when searching for cosplay images what you find the most of is pretty garbage photography. I mean this was the best I could find.

Flickr: WesternWolf's Photostream

 

[runnah]

So you hate anime because Customs in Imports delayed your specialist orders from Japan?

I made my own themed body pillow out of a burlap sack and my tears.

But seriously, weird creepy fans aside I just don't like the art style. It was designed to be cheap to produce but now as costs go down people still choose to use that style for everything.

But I think we can both agree that the new obsession of grown "men" being fans of the pony cartoon is just wrong.

 

[Overread17 5]

But I think we can both agree that the new obsession of grown "men" being fans of the pony cartoon is just wrong.

Do do realise that the "pony cartoon" isn't Anime - its Western animation!

Also anime has a slew of varying artistic approaches and whilst you can classify anime based upon an artistic style its general meaning is animations made in Japan (or sometimes the asian group as whole, but strictly speaking Japan). Myself I far prefer the more serious anime styles and artistic approaches such as Ghost in the Shell - Claymore - Wolf's Rain etc.... over the more stylised and "anime anime" approaches.

 

[runnah]

Do do realise that the "pony cartoon" isn't Anime - its Western animation!

Also anime has a slew of varying artistic approaches and whilst you can classify anime based upon an artistic style its general meaning is animations made in Japan (or sometimes the asian group as whole, but strictly speaking Japan). Myself I far prefer the more serious anime styles and artistic approaches such as Ghost in the Shell - Claymore - Wolf's Rain etc.... over the more stylised and "anime anime" approaches.

Oh I know that. I was just saying that there is something we can both agree upon.

all the different variances stem from the same source. I dislike that source. I have seen stuff like Akira and ghost in the shell but it all draws (oo pun) from the same well.

My biggest gripe is the cosplay, fans, merchandise aspect of it.

Btw best animated film is water ship down or the plague dogs.

 

[e.rose]

I think you should have took on the photo shoot and just thought of it as a challenge. You could have Held complete control over all aspects and came out with some outstanding cosplay images. Remember these people that are into cosplay are huge fans and may be willing to shell out a lot of $$$$$$ for great images.

Nope. I don't do porn. And the site she was shooting for is all Cosplay porn.

You misunderstood me. Not all cosplay is porn. If you search cosplay on flickr there is actually hardly any nudes. I would have told her I would do it with no nudes and total creative control over the whole shoot.


The fact that when searching for cosplay images what you find the most of is pretty garbage photography. I mean this was the best I could find.

Flickr: WesternWolf's Photostream

No, I got what you were saying,

I know what Cosplay is... I have several friends very into it... one of Keith's really good friends (he was in our wedding), is living in Japan and is dating a girl who is REALLY. Effing good at it.

But I think you missed *my* point... which was that the *site* that she was looking to submit images to... is a porn site. So the images she would have wanted from me would have required nudity at some point. And even if we made it "classy implied" BLAH blah blah... they're still images on a *porn* site. And I don't want my name attached to porn. Whether or not my subject was clothed... or nakedly classy.

 

[jake337]

But just so you know. I don't think thou should have taken the gig.

I just would have loved to see the images that you would have come up with.

 

[e.rose]

But just so you know. I don't think thou should have taken the gig.

I just would have loved to see the images that you would have come up with.

Next time I get a gal (or guy) that wants to do NORMAL cosplay (and pays me), I'll be sure to share

Like I said... totally not against cosplay. I'm just against myself participating in Cosplay porn.