New old pictures

So I’m still doing my little project of going back through old pictures and uploading new versions. I thought I’d share some of the more interesting ones, including some I’ve never had uploaded in the first place.

Here’s my fourth lake dress that I made in 2008 – I’ve only ever had 3 pictures of this costume uploaded, though we took about 25 pictures all together. Unfortunately the bulk of them were blurry due to low light and shooting without a flash. I’ve also always HATED the red backdrop we shot on, so I desaturated it and gave it a purple tint, which just didn’t clash so much with the costume. Doing that took a lot of time, so I never really dug through the photos and just picked my few favs and used those. But I finally went through and did a little more – one of the other problems was that the backdrop was not properly laid out, so there were a lot of spots were you could see kitchen floor or our laundry room; I fixed them as best I could, but they’re not great….. BUT at least I have a few more pictures of this costume now.

My Padme costume from 2008.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | InstagramMy Padme costume from 2008.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram

My Padme costume from 2008.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram My Padme costume from 2008.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram

I found this shot of Selene from Dragoncon 2008 that I actually really liked. I generally don’t like close-ups like this. I did edit my eyes to be a little bit more saturated since I obviously wasn’t wearing the Underworld vampire contacts 🙂

My Selene (Underworld) costume at Dragoncon 2008.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram

For some reason I never uploaded the pictures of me and Kevin as Luke and Leia on Endor from several years ago.

My Leia Ewok village costume from 2007.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram

And some silly ones… bowing at the end of the photoshoot, and the second one I think we were just looking around while waiting on Chase to get the camera set up, but it looks like we’re totally lost.

My Leia Ewok village costume from 2007.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram My Leia Ewok village costume from 2007.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram

Another one I recently revisited were my Wonder Woman (2007 version) white backdrop photos. These were from the very first white backdrop shoot Chase & I did, and I’ve never been totally happy with how the pictures came out. I went back to the original RAW files and, with 6 more years of experience of cleaning these things up, re-edited them from the ground up. I’m so much happier with these now – my skin doesn’t look yellow, my face isn’t in shadows and there’s not random patches of shadow in the corners.

My Wonder Woman costume from March 2007.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram My Wonder Woman costume from March 2007.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram

Revisited my Scarlet Witch pictures from the first time I wore it as well – a lot of these were really dark because if I tried to lighten them, my pink bodysuit ended up washed out and just looking white, which looked really weird. So I redid these while trying to preserve the pink, and bring it back up as needed.

My Scarlet Witch (Avengers) costume from March 2008. Taken at MidSouthCon 2008.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram My Scarlet Witch (Avengers) costume from March 2008. Taken at MidSouthCon 2008.Kelldar.com | My Facebook Page | Tumblr | Instagram

Tonight I’m shooting Peggy on the white backdrop so I can get some updated pictures with my new makeup and shortened wig 🙂 So I’ll be taking a break from old pictures for a bit.