/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I use a A7iii and a fancy zeiss 1.4f 50mm lens when I go to comiket and other conventions in Japan(I live in the damn country). Upgraded last year from a a6000 with a 24-70mm lens.
I got other godox flash equipment and tighter lenses for portrait(see pic), but you obviously can't use that shit in cons. I use that for my Tokyo night photography.

I have bad anxiety too(even though I'm a 67'" blond hair blue eyed male in Japan), and have trouble with the language, so approaching cosplayers for me is always a pain. Despite all the cosplayers wanting their photo taken. I also have no idea how to find or book studio sets to take photos here.

Building a profile here is pretty much impossible too, while in the west, uploading somebodies photo from a convention is normally OK after you ask for a photo. Japan is different, you need their permission for the photo, but then you need ask for more permission to upload it. Why people want their photos to be taken but then not shared? Because not everyone can take good photos and the whores understand this.
I've seen twitter drama where thousand follow whores complain about some random uploading a photo onto twitter because it wasn't shooped so hard it made their face look like plastic. Ever noticed how the photographers of Japanese cosplayers get barely attention, but the whores do? That's why.