{"id":46,"date":"2009-08-08T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-07-01T00:13:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T05:13:51","slug":"meet-up-in-bryant-park-for-hetalia-axis-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Meet-up in Bryant Park for Hetalia: Axis Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the larger Central Park Meet-up some of the AnimeNext cosplayers setup a few weeks back because I had something else that prevented me from going to.\u00a0 Being that I&#8217;m in NYC its not that hard to just show up at meets with cosplay planed to put in some needed practice time.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still working on getting up to candid photo speed on the Lensbaby.\u00a0 I can do set shots on a tripod because I can check focus and make minor adjustments but that doesn&#8217;t help in the field.\u00a0 Maybe my vision is off and the diopter on my camera is set wrong because everything does look like it in focus.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s meet-up was Hetalia: Axis Powers.\u00a0 I found it on cosplay.com and they had a <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/hetalia\/3210892.html?page=1&amp;view=73529996#comments\">Live Journal<\/a> event posted.\u00a0 Pretty much the only thing I knew about it from running into it from AnimeNext was that its basically fan-girl fodder material with people name after countries or something like that..\u00a0\u00a0 So I went to put in some lens time.\u00a0\u00a0 I got a few photos done when they first met.\u00a0 Left for a bit as half the group left and came back later to see if anyone else showed up.  Not too many did show up in cosplay.  <\/p>\n<p>I tried a few Zone Plate shots.\u00a0 Google Zone Plate for the technical about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5034.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48 aligncenter\" title=\"Hetalia Zone Plate Lensbaby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5034-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zone Plate\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5034-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5034.JPG 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Zone Plate<\/p>\n<p>While most of the Lensbaby stuff can be mimicked in Photoshop.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not fun in that photochopping away.\u00a0 Reflections get a hard glowing ring because of the way light is focused through the plate.<\/p>\n<p>And I almost got this picture right.\u00a0\u00a0 There was a group also in the part playing with this ring thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5043.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50 aligncenter\" title=\"Bryant Park Girl In Ring\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5043-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Bryant Park Girl In Ring\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5043-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/D3N_5043.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Bryant Park Girl In Ring<\/p>\n<p>I almost got the focus right.\u00a0\u00a0 But you can see the selective focus effect where the center ring is the attempted focus.<\/p>\n<p>Thats it for now and hopefully my lens comes back fixed in better shape than I&#8217;m used to.\u00a0\u00a0 As they have to a complete teardown I hope they replace the VR system as I&#8217;ve been reading they&#8217;ve been dying and clean the insides and it was getting a bit dirty inside.\u00a0 And then I can finally use a recently calibrated lens to tell if my eyepiece is set right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s meet-up was Hetalia: Axis Powers.  I found it on cosplay.com and they had a Live Journal event posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6,8,7,9],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-5","tag-bryant-park","tag-meet-up","tag-nyc","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}