Now, this post-type is titled "Deep Sea Exploration". This type's purpose is to, well, explore the feelings I have on the relationship of two things. What the things are don't matter, they are completely random.
Photo above was taken with a film camera.
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I'm the member of some cosplay group, but I don't cosplay. Hell, I have my own cosgroup but I don't cosplay. It's also just the name we formally call our group of friends, but this is a anything-goes group. I'm primarily a photographer who prefers to observe rather than participate.
Now why don't I cosplay, If I'm so much into the culture?
I'm a very harsh person, and so something has to be perfect when I do it. I become angry at myself when I don't get my pictures perfectly; even if I mess up my schedule, I get really angry. Because I planned it to be perfect and it's not turning out the way I planned it.
I cannot do cosplay the way I planned it. If I'm going to do cosplay, everything must be dead-accurate. It's hard to do dead-accurate. And I don't have the body build that perfectly matched the character I want to cosplay, as I'm not drawn and I eat a lot of meat. Also, it could be said that cosplay, just doesn't get my juices flowing that much.
Also recently I've encountered the situation of cosplay snobbery. Since, by some distinct twisted way, the local scene transformed the hobby of cosplaying into a uncalled for status of elevated rank. people who do cosplay and are sometimes good at it turn into unsufferable snobs. Now this is not the general rule now, but my fear is that this happens and accelerates in a few years. That'd be bad. It's elicited numerous statements of disgust who are in the right mind. Maybe this can be sourced from the fact that mass media had and done a great deal of things in order do this escalation? Not that I reject the popularisation of the hobby, but I just simply cannot stand to bear the thought of the disrespect caused by those in it for simple popularity butchering my favorite fandoms.
Most of my photography, I learned through shooting cosplay subjects. I like to think that I have a pretty good idea how you can tell whether a cosplay done is good. And I have worked with people who are just great at doing it. I've also met people who are good at cosplay photography. Behind the lens, what makes the cosplay especially brilliant is how the person donning the costume portraying the character on which their costume is based on. I know I've put a heavy emphasis on the aesthetic quality of cosplay, but it is one of the many important aspects of it. You could say the cosplay requires a multitude of factors to be pulled off successfully. It's very common to see someone cosplaying a character just for the heck of it, or for fame and glory; It could be said that this specific reason is a big factor for the ongoing cosplay snobbery. I can understand their snobbery, but much of this is still an excessive response to the current phenomenon.
All this rage, all this rage must be reformed to constructively change on how characters are portrayed. We must remember how easy it is to be angry, and in to the same extent how easy it is to hurt a person's feelings. Of course, this goes without saying that they are really sincere in wanting to portray their favorite character properly; this effort cannot apply to persons who are not really interested in sharing their like for the fandom, but are in it for superficial reasons of fame and notoriety.
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