[Cyrene Cosplay] Honkai: Star Rail—The Next Page Existing Because of You

This time, taking advantage of the indoor venue of the exhibition hall, I seized the time to shoot a set of photos in this outfit. The overall design features a loose Japanese-style jacket with blue-purple as the main tone. The cuffs are spliced with purple fabrics of different shades, adorned with some gold threads and patterned decorations on the edges. Paired with a white inner camisole and a short dress, the conspicuous golden hollow-out accessory at the waist is the detail that requires the most position control in the entire look; it needs repeated adjustments while wearing to ensure it looks neat and textured from the front.

The light pink short hair, along with the white curved-horn hair accessory on the side and paired with blue colored contacts, makes the overall facial look appear more translucent. During the shoot, I sat on a black metal folding ladder. This height was perfect for completely showcasing the high-top Roman-style lace-up sandals and the leg lines. The shoe upper design, interwoven with white and gold leather straps, not only echoes the jacket in terms of color but also allows the overall visual center of gravity to extend downward, elongating the body proportions.

This time, I brought a crescent-shaped white weapon as a prop. Its curvature design is very unique, with a slight barb structure along the edges. Holding it in my hand, combined with twisting in different directions or holding it with one hand, can add different senses of weight to the frame. Because the lighting at the top of the exhibition hall consists of dense rows of circular lights, which create highlights and shadows on different colored fabrics when hitting the clothes, the photographer deliberately used a larger aperture to blur out the exhibition hall and passersby in the background, making the character in the foreground stand out.

Before shooting this piece of work, I carefully thought about the matching direction of the makeup. Since the pink short hair and the blue-toned jacket themselves have quite vibrant colors, I kept the base makeup relatively clear and translucent. The eye makeup only used light colors to slightly deepen the eye sockets, and after elongating the eyeliner, it was paired with the colored contacts simply to emphasize the dynamic agility of the gaze. Unlike shooting dark-themed characters for this kind of role-playing game creation that require heavy shadow contouring, this bright and vibrant outfit is better suited for a clean and crisp makeup look.

When adjusting my sitting position on the metal rack while holding the prop, I needed to pay attention to the direction of the jacket's hem and the white skirt hem at all times. Sometimes, a slight tilt of the head or opening my arms a bit allows the dropped-shoulder design of the jacket to naturally display the lines of the neck and shoulders. Shooting a character with a somewhat flowing jacket really tests the capture of the garment's form in the wind or during movement. Fortunately, although the venue was a bit cluttered, by controlling the extension of my body during shooting, we could still capture the natural draping form of the clothes.

Although the step stool on-site looks simple, because it inherently possesses a rigid metal structure, it forms a wonderful visual contrast with the soft texture of the clothes and the rounded curves of the prop. I believe this sense of contrast is highly worth preserving, so I didn't deliberately avoid the industrial feel of the tool itself; instead, I intentionally kept it at the edges and bottom of the frame in the composition to add some spatial narrative to the image.

We actually shot two different states for this set of Convention photos on-site: one was a slightly relaxed pose sitting on the stool with both hands resting naturally on my legs, and the other was a standing pose holding the prop up with one hand while looking at the camera. Looking at them comprehensively, I feel that the picture of sitting on the stool with my legs hanging down naturally, combined with eye contact, best conveys the lightness I wanted to express. Although the material texture of the clothes isn't exceptionally heavy, it features some stiff folds and sewn edges, allowing the jacket to maintain its structured shape even without support.

Every time I shoot a character with many decorative elements, the biggest fear is accessories displacing or the hair deforming, so I would still check from time to time on-site whether the necklace was crooked or if the hair accessory was still clipped where it should be in the hair. The photographer kept an eye on these details for me throughout the process, and the efficiency of our cooperation was quite decent. Flipping through the screen after the shoot, I felt quite satisfied with the colors and lighting perception; overall, against this grayish-white background color of the exhibition hall, the blue-purple clothes and pink hair stand out even more.

That's all for this post of photography sharing. I mainly wanted to share some minor insights regarding this set of photos, from the attire to the actual shoot. My personal habit is to review the light conditions and movement directions of the scene after shooting, which also helps with the next output.