Toy Magz Fair 2008 wasn't really that eventful in the day 1 and day 2. The main event happened in the 3rd day, and of course i was there to participate and cover the events. There were some events starting from photography competition, cosplay contest, NDS Mario Kart Tournament, auctions, and contest winner announcement.
Around 14.00 local time at that day, photography competition started and i also participated in that competition. The objective was to collect 4 photos with each photo has a different theme. This photography competition was all about "story inside a photo" and not about beauty in photo.
The first theme was Macro for Micro photo. In this theme, participants have to take a shot of small Warhammer diorama. It sounded easy, but it's not, believe me... Warhammer diorama is so small that you need some macro lens to take your photo to the next level. But remember, beauty of photo didn't count, the judgement was based from photo's story and its title.
Here are another photo i taken for Macro for Micro theme :
Next theme was Shutter Speed. As the name implies, you have to shot moving objects using your camera, of course without motion blur or any other blur that caused by moving things. Sounded easy for flash mounted SLR, but remember... The main objective of collecting this theme wasn't only to get nice sharp image of the radio control, but also create a story within that photo. Anyway i lost most of my photos and my submitted photo for this theme, so the only photo left is just this photo above.
Next theme was about Exhibition Activity. The main objective of this theme was to catch some nice and unique happenings around the Toy Magz Fair. I think you need some luck to win this theme, because i wasn't lucky enough to get a nice and unique photo with a nice story inside.
And the last theme was Action Pose. The target was to get nice photo (with story) of figures. There were many figures displayed around the event, it's easy to get a nice set of pictures of them. But to get a nice picture with story wasn't as easy as it sounds. Here are some photos i took for this theme :
In case you're wondering what's that red light came from, I'll explain a little bit here. By using wireless flash system, everything can happen if you happen to be at the right place, at the right moment, and with the right properties. I had my wireless flash fired at my bro's stomach who were wearing red T-shirt at that time, and the result was Dante and Gundam photos above. If you're firing flash to some colored panel, the light returned will be the same colored as the panel.
Anyway, i didn't win anything. I lost at the story i guess... I couldn't really make some nice title for my photos, so i ended up losing the competition.
Next event was the cosplay competition. I didn't have any photos of auction and the NDS tournament, so this is the last batch of this event coverage. Cosplay competition of this event was great! More cosplayer and better cosplayer came at this event. I can say that they were really great with style, details, and characters. But one thing i can say for sure, Indonesian cosplayer need more cute girl to cosplay. XD
Here are some nice sets of cosplay photos, some of them managed to get at the top 10 best cosplayer at the cosplay competition :
Nene & Ina - both are my fav, Ina was the winner of this competition, the girl's cute and the costume's great.
Well, that's it for the 2nd part of Toy Magz Fair coverage. I'll have the haul photo covered around tommorow or the day after tommorow, so keep looking forward to it!
that lelouch is a girl? :O totally flat tho haha
ReplyDeleteYeah, she is. I too was mistaken at first.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!!!
ReplyDeleteA lot of good stuff happened!!!!!
Lulu is a girl....wtf...
Too bad you didn't win!!!!! I hope you win next year!!!!!!
Yeah, cosplay in this event was way better than the other events. That Lulu is a girl, believe it!
ReplyDeleteThanks, i do hope there will be another competition.