But when one thing comes to an end another one starts and that is why all of my blogging activity will be here on this new blog r.belela photography . Here I will post my pictures, landscapes, figure photo shoots, some portraits and what ever I shoot. I will try to be much more active there than I’ve been here in these last months.

Again, thank you very much for these past years, I will never forget those that used to post here. If I don’t comment on your blogs I still follow you via google reader and facebook. Hope to see you on my new blog.

As you can see on the bottom right corner of the picture I started using my real name on the photos instead of animestuff, this is also visible on the previous posts.

You’ve probably noticed by now that her shirt colour is different than usual, that’s because it received a special treatment digitally.

This one was a special fan service, I think she’s really well made back there, you can also see her underwear shape, enhanced it with both light and digital treatment.

I just had to do something to those four balls on her hand, they were so bland I decided to create some energy around them, added it as well to the heart shape rosary. The energy balls are better used on a large scale than on small objects, used it on my facebook profile picture if you’re wondering.

Here you can see the progress of the previous picture, well not the entire progress of course, that would require a video but it gives you an idea. The first picture is the direct raw file, previous to any sort treatment. The second picture is after some treatment on lightroom before exporting to photoshop. And as for the last one, it was entirely worked on photoshop, burning hair, skirt, socks, dodging swords, photo filters, the whole “schebang”.
As soon as I change blogs I’ll post it here, if you’re interested in seeing the pictures I took this summer you can check them on my flickr page.

Jo from Bakuten is back after a long period of absence. Here the light was pointed directly at her. Black and White conversion with selective color.

Mirei-san lovely as always. Same as Jo above.

Always liked shooting Chou’un. Great model indeed, and low-key is perfect for her. Couldn’t decide which one I liked the most so I decided to upload both. These pictures I had the light point directly at a reflector and from there to the subject.

Couldn’t resist this black and white version so I had it printed at a shop with 30×45 cm and framed it for myself . Same technique as above.

Louise peek-a-boo? She also returns. Same technique as above and the same for all below.

This one turned out a bit scary but also very elegant.

Chua Churam returns also. Happy faces like this, not easy to find.

Also really like how this one turned out. Very tempted to have it printed, then frame it ^_^ .

I’ll keep taking pictures of everything I find interesting to my eyes, landscapes, figures, people, gundams, animals, whatever. If you are interested is seeing that I have besides figures you can click the link on the right bar under My Flickr or click here.

Filed under: Figures Tagged: b&w, black and white, Figures, low-key ]]> http://animestuff.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/low-key-first-edition/feed/ 2 Belela-san http://animestuff.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/ryomou-shimei-my-little-couch/ http://animestuff.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/ryomou-shimei-my-little-couch/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:00:46 +0000 Belela-san http://animestuff.wordpress.com/?p=644 ]]> There are those times that you just want to sit back and enjoy your own private moment and on special occasions you have someone photographing that moment of yours. So I had Ryomou-san from Nanyou Gakuen to share that moment with me this time.
Quite and interesting figure this one of Mou-chan from Orchid Seed, can say that it is my first NSFW figure. Also used some filters on post processing to “cool down” the colours. Proceed at your own risk, there is some nudity after the click below.

I must say that it really is a cute figure. The curves are gorgeous. Funny thing is that I never noticed the reflection since I’ve always used a black base. So I tried using that reflection this time.

Some nice abs but difficult to shoot.

The beauty mark reminds me a lot of a beautiful classmate I had since middle to high school.

I think Mou-chan got the eye-patch on wrong eye O.o . The infamous Dragon is awakening.

Of course I haven’t been travelling around the globe but from the time I made the last post to this one it really looks like it. Those that “follow” my pictures on my flickr page know that I haven’t stopped photographing. I just don’t have much interest in blogging nowadays. Probably because I’ve noticed that most blogs haven’t been receiving the usual feedback (comments), most likely because of the evil thing called Google Reader. Such an evil and useful tool that thing is. The guy/gal that came up with the idea should either be shot or given a super award (LOL). Anyway, since I was asked to do another post because some people really enjoyed my last pictures, I decided to do it. Here’s the rest.

I decided not to do a full body shot and a back shot, well actually I have them on the hard drive, but they looked weird (pictures) so I decided not to upload. Since she is so slim and her back only has a nice wavy hair and a nice a.. it still didn’t look good on pictures, not very photogenic in that area. But she’s gorgeous from the front in all aspects.

In these next pictures I decided to try something new on photoshop. Messing around with my black & white macro and mixing layers I came up with an interesting effect. By increasing the contrast with mixed up layers I managed to get some nice colouring effects, which to some people resemble skin colour. Unfortunately it doesn’t work very well with some existing pictures of other figures I took in the past.

(Photoshop alert, what is missing on this picture “below”)

Still trying to understand what is so special about this b&w picture, apparently people have screamed, yelled, cried (well probably not cried) and begged to know how I did this. Those familiar with photoshop will know how to do it, just “google” selective black & white, the rest is my technique . It’s a nice picture (from my point of view) but I still can’t see the wow effect given by some people, which I thank for the praise of course.

See you next time.

The white mage appears on the 4th edition again

It’s the favourite maid that everyone likes

Close up shot

Old Sei from Bakuretsu Tenshi is back (Meg and Jo will most likely appear in a future B&W edition)

Here’s the new arrived model, thanks to Jikai for getting this great figure

Tried enhancing the blue of Kakouen eyes while leaving the in B&W, it turned out quite well. Don’t know when I’ll make a full post of Kakouen pictures, still in exams, probably this weekend.

It’s so large like this that I had to step way back to use my macro lens.

Once again having fun making light sabres .

Here’s the video of the badass Kshatriya.

Ok so now what else do I have to shoot?! Currently nothing, will probably have fun shooting in B&W but in the meantime besides studying I have to follow the adventures of Aledy Naash, Neige Hausen, Haken Browning, Ashen Brodel, Kaguiya Nanbu, Suzuka hime, Reiji Arimasu, Xiaomu, KOS-MOS, Axel Almer and Alfimi throughout the Endless Frontier in SRW OG Saga Endless Frontier Exceed ^_^. Me and Myself out.

You’ll notice some differences when you click the picture of Nanoha, I made some changes in adding the name and Alter’s label, but by doing that I moved Nanoha a bit too much and she got “out of sync” with the magic circle.

I expect getting these two figures next month but still haven’t made my order. Since I have Kan’U and Chou’un these two will complement them, specially Ryomou ^_^.

Kakouen Myousai is filled with energy, love the pose, probably one of the reasons of my interest in her.

It takes me quite a bit of time making a picture like this, most of that time is spent in cutting the edges of the figures (about an hour of cutting) which is quite annoying because the pictures are small and with only a mouse it’s pretty much  a pain in the butt. I wonder if a graphics tablet would make the difference?!

Sheryl, oh Sheryl…

Really love how this one turned out, the way the hair received the light, the mouth looks amazing while the eyes keep glowing.

Definitely the “queen” of my collection.

Strike appears for the first time in a black and white edition.

Deunan from Appleseed (for those that don’t know), quite an amazing action figure with bad equilibrium.

Completely forgot that Sera-chan is an amazing photographic model, also have pictures of her lower part but still haven’t messed up with them in photoshop.

It seems I take at least 5 to 6 months in making a black and white post, lets see if I can make them faster since I have more free time now. Still no real models, it seems they are scared of having their pictures taken by me XD.