Fantasy in Focus: Cosplay with Colored Contacts

I attended a cosplay event in Stockton, California. Cosplay is short for costume play. The term コスプレ (kosupure) was coined in Japan in 1984. Cosplaying as a hobby started to get popular in the 1990s, and is now a significant aspect of popular culture in Japan and other parts of East Asia, as well as in the Western world.

 

I'll show a print of this portrait of cosplaying Meena at my upcoming exhibition called Spirit of Japan: Then & Now. If you are around please join the opening reception on August 2nd at the Art Ark Gallery in San Jose, California.

 

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photos from two RAW exposures, manually stacked them, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

 

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-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 1/350 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC3555_8_hdr2bal1pho1l.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

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