[Copano Rickey Cosplay] Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Industrial Style Cosplay Sharing

Sharing this set of Copano Rickey cosplay photos, with the shooting environment chosen inside a garage with an industrial texture. Choosing Garage photography this time is with the hope that the orange-toned clothing and the red-and-yellow background elements echo each other.

First, let's talk about the styling design of the wig. The overall hair is long and orange-leaning, with a large area of white highlights left on the forehead section, creating a very strong visual color collision. The updo on top of the head and the dark brown animal-ear-like decorations on both sides need to be carefully adjusted in position to look natural. When handling the bangs and the hair strands on both sides, I specially made them fluffy, which can frame the face shape in front of the lens while restoring the character's agile and unconstrained image.

In terms of makeup, the expressiveness of the eyes was heavily emphasized. Red colored contact lenses were selected, paired with prominent upper and lower eyelashes, and blush on both sides of the cheeks. This type of makeup looks very translucent under light and shadow, and with the lens's snapshot capture, it easily presents the unique texture of a 2D character. During the shooting process, it was also necessary to constantly adjust the angles to prevent overhead lighting from making facial shadows too heavy.

The layering of the clothing is very strong. The inner layer is a white lace trim collar, and the outer layer is a yellow skirt. The red cross-woven rope knot on the chest is the visual center, inlaid with a blue sapphire, and the end of the rope knot also hangs with red tassels and small blue beads. After putting on this outfit, one needs to pay slight attention to the range of movement because the collar decorations are quite complex. Paired with royal blue fingerless gloves, the color-blocking design of the entire look is extremely distinct.

This shoot mainly relied on the studio's professional overhead lights and fill light from the side and back. The garage environment itself is on the darker side, with the car tires, wheel hubs, and iron racks in the background creating a cold and hard industrial atmosphere. This cold and hard background nicely sets off those bright yellow, red, white, and blue elements on the costume, making the figure appear highly eye-catching in the frame.

For the full-set photos this time, I selected two different states. One is wearing the blue fingerless gloves, raising both hands in front of the lens to enhance the interactive feel of the image through perspective relations; the other is taking off the gloves, retaining a half-body shot format to focus on displaying the woven rope knot on the collar, the gemstone, and the lace trim details of the skirt.

To me personally, Anime cosplay is not just about putting on a character's clothes, but more about understanding the character's unique personality. Although this gear has many details and taking it on/off and managing it takes a lot of time, the moment I adjust the wig and accessories to stand in front of the lens, I can truly feel that vigorous vitality emanating from this character. This is also what I want to convey most in this set of shoots, restoring the vitality of the 2D world into realistic frames. The entire photo set did not undergo exaggerated special effects synthesis, but rather leaned toward using actual shooting to present the character's traits through Garage photography.