{"id":60,"date":"2015-06-25T02:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T02:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2015-11-18T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T17:14:51","slug":"how-to-get-free-cosplay-photoshoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/25\/how-to-get-free-cosplay-photoshoots\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding free photographers (1\/4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you buy your costume, make it yourself or find something in your closet to throw together\u2026 you\u2019re probably going to want a picture of it. And you\u2019re not alone! I myself have spent hours online searching through google to find photos of myself that people snapped at conventions. They\u2019re usually not a very pretty sight.<\/p>\n<p>If you want better quality photos, you usually end up paying through the nose for a \u00bd hour photo shoot at the con, or spending 5 minutes in a tiny photo booth setup in the corner of the dealer&#8217;s room. This is not for me. And if it\u2019s not for you, I have found a solution!<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of photographers out there who want to shoot you just as much as you want to document your amazing costume. All you have to do is sign up for model websites or group meetups. It is that. Easy. Below are few places I recommend trying out. I will go over some of the benefits and ways to advertise yourself on each site in the next couple of posts.<\/p>\n<p>(Click for direct link)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/finding-photographers-through-model-sites-34\/\">1. ModelMayhem.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/03\/finding-photographers-through-facebook\/\">2. Facebook.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/12\/finding-photographers-through-meetup-44\/\">3. Meetup.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you buy your costume, make it yourself or find something in your closet to throw together\u2026 you\u2019re probably going to want a picture of it. And you\u2019re not alone! I myself have spent hours online searching through google to find photos of myself that people snapped at conventions. They\u2019re usually not a very pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,4,16,14,21,7,17,12,9,20,6,15,22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75NCP-Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeofcosplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}