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Cosplay Photography at Cockatoo Island

This event has been pencilled in my diary for a good few months now and although I didn't know many people aside from their screen names, I decided to take the plunge and head along if not to just shake the dust bunnies off my gear. It's not quite my average shoot, but there aren't many opportunities to shoot for fun these days once the schedule fills up.

A big round of applause to Kris of WhatABigCamera.com who organised the shoot and essentially assigned photographers to groups of cosplayers. Having a number of small, intimate groups spread across the island was a far better choice than having a hoard of photographers taking the same pictures of the same few subjects. I know I definitely missed a few locations, so it'll be interesting to see how diverse and creative each of the shots from the group were, rather than x pictures of the same thing from very slightly different angles.

Whilst I didn't get the opportunity to shoot with everyone, the girls that were with me were fantastic and powered on through the day. A lot of people don't realise that modelling can be quite tiring. For weddings in particular, I can understand that you're made up on your wedding day already, but after waking up at horrid hours in the morning and running through a long ceremony, I don't know how some couples make it through 3-4 hour photoshoots as the first thing they do in their married life! And then they have another few hours at the reception, it's a wonder they don't simply fall dead asleep on their wedding night!

So with this in mind, all of the models today were fantastic and really trooped on despite the rain, long hours and a distinct lack of food. I really appreciate your efforts as without a model, we'd all simply be taking landscape photos (which I'm not particularly fond of myself).

Anyway, you're here for the photos, so here they are. I didn't get as many keepers as I'd like and some of these are a bit of a stretch. Models, if you would like the RAWs, please get in contact with me. Unless otherwise noted, all pictures have had basic corrections, but no touch ups.

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