AnoHana: Menma and Jintan

With Anime Festival Asia 2011 over it meant me jumping straight back into the cosplay photoshoot bandwagon. As I mentioned in my previous post I felt that my cosplay photos during AFA11 were unsatisfactory so I felt I had to make it up to myself somehow.

This weeks series was Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (shortened to AnoHana) which is one of my most favourite series. For those who have watched it will know it is a heartwarming and emotional show which was recently shown and has gained popularity since its debut. One of the main characters, Meiko “Menma” Honma, has become fairly popular amongst fans due to her adorable nature. For this shoot I tried to capture the happy and playful nature of Menma just as she is in the television series. Along side with her is the male protagonist whom is paired of with her is Jinta “Jintan” Yadomi.

For this shoot I tried to get several coupling or pair shots where both characters are in frame due to the relationship they have with one another. Although the photos may not show it both of them felt very natural as a couple so setting up the shot and expressing their relationship was easier than expected. For the shots of Menma photos of her playing in the playground and being her usual happy and cheerful self I felt was sufficient as it is close as it gets to her personality in the television series.

I was generally happy with the photos but it did take me two iterations of editing to finally get a result was content with (although it could have still been better). Originally it was too overexposed and pretty much bathed in too much sunlight so I felt it needed to be re-edited however some photos could not be fix due too raw file being too overexposed. If I had to nitpick even more there were another two photos where Menma was playing on the balancing beam where the white balance was not the same as the rest of the photos in the same set. Although there is probably nothing wrong with this I do feel a little unsettled that the colour balance is cooler than the rest so a constant white balance throughout the entire set is unachieved. There’s probably nothing wrong with this but I do like to strive for consistency in white balance for each photoshoot set.

Overall I was pretty satisfied with the photoshoot however I’m a little unhappy a made a few careless mistakes on my end but nonetheless I felt I produced photos I generally liked in the end. I’d like to thank to Hexlord for organizing and inviting me along to his shoot as well as Sotong Xinxin and Jay for letting me join.

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