>>3389685>>3389689I'd have to crop a lot of the ones I've got. I would love to post some of the Japanese models, but a lot of the girls I've shot ended up with promotion agencies, and I'm scared shitless of losing those contracts. I'll check what I can find when I'm back home.
>>3389780Again, these are mostly inexperienced girls. If they have an elaborate costume (full body stuff) then yeah, get a good 50 or 35 for environmental portrait work. If you have a second camera body, then leave a zoom or second mid tele prime on it (85+) to get that headshot capture. You can get away with walking around with one camera, but you look even more like a pro when you get that second camera out. It's stupid but you should see the look on these girls faces when you take out a big zoom lens. They immediately feel like they're a real model.
I used to carry speedlites, but it's a huge pain in the ass to carry that shit on the floor, so I just bring fast lenses and a reflector. The level of dynamic range on these new cameras is incredible if you know the settings. I used to shoot Canon, but switched to Sony a few years back for the lighter weight and because getting in on the ground floor with them helped me get a lot of lenses for free via ambassador work. I keep my 55mm/1.8 on my a7iii and my 70-200/2.8 on my a7riii. I have the 85mm/1.4GM but only use that when I'm actually hired by some of these people for professional studio work.
If you want to see what people like, just go online or especially go to Instagram and check the cosplay hashtags, or search this one on there for the Japanese ones コスプレ
