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Nov 09
in Inspiration, news, projects, work 16 comments

All about the Fans

Even though I am a movie fan myself, and my dream is to be the one creating these amazing movie posters, my visit to Cardiff Film & Comic Con was actually my first comic con ever anywhere. I got a press pass (thank you to Showmasters for that) for the event and went out to take some images. My idea was to put kind of flash harness pack bag on and try to get bit different portraits while there. I’ve seen images from these events and they kind of look the same, lots of people in the same picture, straight on camera flash etc. So I tried to come up with an idea to get off camera flash, but still work on my own.

Here is a image of my setup, taken by my son Petro. So it is one Godox witstro 360 flash, with small octa box on top of my head. I think it worked out really well!

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While there walking along with my one man flash “Photo Booth” I started to understand what the event was all about. It was not about the celebrity quests that I also wanted to photograph (more about that later in Part II), but it was all about the fans and the visitors there. The time and effort they put into the costumes, minutes / hrs they spend in line to first even to get in and then to get autographs and photos with their idols, all the money they spend while there to get posters, miniatures, swords, t-shirts, signed autographs, images, art .. you name it. They are true Fans. And they mean everything for these industries.

These fans are the reason why these actors, movie, tv and gaming studios exists, without them there is nothing. And this is why I tried to contribute something small on my behalf for them, by giving bit of my time to make them look like the celebrities, movie or tv or game heroes they deserve to be. I think I took images around 120-130 different people with their costumes on and decided to put them all online for them, but also retouch some of the pictures a bit further. So I selected 20 of my favourite images and put some fast retouching in them to get bit more of that Movie feel ..

So here is the image series I call “Real heroes of Cardiff Film & Comic Con”. Hope you like them! I was just amazed about the amount of detail the costumes had. Time, money, energy ..

Part II coming soon ..

_Antti The Finn






 

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About the Author: Antti Karppinen
Digital artist from Finland. Retoucher, creative brain, father, wannabe card magician.Creator of unexisting worlds and stories. Imagine Anything!

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16 Comments:

  1. Bekah
    November 09, 2014
    Reply

    I can’t believe this was your first con, it was my first too and it’s such a privilege to have such an amazing photo of my Thranduil costume! Thank you so much!

  2. Sean
    November 09, 2014
    Reply

    Man you are awesome thanks for using my arrow cosplay

  3. ruth
    November 09, 2014
    Reply

    Wow thats all I can say is wow…. amazing and my colin baker I made for my son looks amazing. You have true talent xx

  4. danny Hoang
    November 10, 2014
    Reply

    Thank you very much for taking the pics, this is excellent work!

  5. Kristian
    November 10, 2014
    Reply

    Thanks so much for taking a photo of my Renly Baratheon, your work is incredible. It was a pleasure meeting you! I would definitely love to have a shoot with you!

  6. Talía Bordallo
    November 10, 2014
    Reply

    I almost had tears at the end your your short, yet sincere text. Thank you for your amazing pictures and your precious effort, which we obviously can see in each of your photographs. I wish you the best in your future, and hopefully you get to make awesome film posters and work with the stars!!!

  7. Esa Edvik
    November 11, 2014
    Reply

    Fantastic captures! Never seen Con photos like these 🙂

  8. Carys Thomas
    November 13, 2014
    Reply

    Hello! cant believe this was you first comic-con! You were so professional and for you to take photos people who cosplayed really made is special! cant wait to see more as you took a photo of me and my brother who were the Halo Spartans! That really made our day, as it was our first cosplay. Cant wait to see them when they go up and you put your magic touch on them! Excited now 🙂 x

    • Antti Karppinen
      November 13, 2014
      Reply

      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152785565963119&set=o.672410839455601&type=3&theater
      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152785565943119&set=o.672410839455601&type=3&theater

      These? Didn’t retouch them all .. but they all are online there.

      • Carys Thomas
        November 17, 2014
        Reply

        Im sorry but those links don’t work, please could you re-send them? Im happy with just having a photo of our cosplays taken, that just made my day 🙂 thank you again.

  9. glipho.Com
    April 10, 2015
    Reply

    Hyvää tekstiä (kuten aina), oli hauska lukea.
    Taidankin laittaa tämän blogin tilaukseen.

    Olen kiinnostunut blogin kirjoittamisesta ja olen suunmittelemassa
    omaa blogia. Blogiszi ulkoasu on mukavan yksinkertainen ja silmää miellyttävä..

    Haluatko kertoa, minkälaista teemaa käytät? 🙂

    Ymmärrän kyllä, jos et halua sitä paljastaa.
    Kiitos kuitenkin.


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