I’ve been fairly busy lately, however I’ve gotten a number of new ideas for projects and concepts for working on the site recently and so I’ve spent the past few days cleaning things up and getting it ready for use.

The biggest change made so far is the gallery. I’m porting everything off SmugMug due to their poor design and somewhat high cost for the services provided. Instead I’m using WordPress itself to power the blog and I think it’s come out quite nicely. You can check out the updated galleries via the top bar.

Should you run into trouble or have any comments/requests, leave a comment below!

Just a quick note, I got the plague from Ohayocon this year so the photoshoot processing is delayed for a few days, but I expect to have them up sometime next week once I can breath again.

Ohayocon 2013

January 22, 2013 — Leave a comment

I’m alive and well from the convention. Overall I am somewhat disappointed with the photo results. Between the crowds and the hectic nature, I didn’t get a chance to get nearly as many as I’d have liked. For larger cons in the future, I’m going to aim to schedule more shoots and have my ‘fun’ times at smaller cons with more random shots. I don’t believe I’m going to bother with a badge next year as honestly the events I totally ignored and I was highly unimpressed with security (both hotel and con staff). It pains me to complain but honestly there’s no need for security to be rude and yelling at everyone for everything. That said, the majority were quite polite and did a great job.

If anyone would like to do a shoot with me, be sure to contact me as well! I’m very interested in doing more shoots between cons and at the moment I’m only asking for transit costs and lunch. I’m more then happy to spend the day going through cosplays and running around locations so shoot me a message! ^_^

Final images are online in my gallery as well as on Facebook and Google+. You can also view them here by viewing the full post. Feel free to spread them about, edit and enjoy them. Attribution would be nice, but is not required for these. For folks I did photoshoots with, I’ll have these online within the next few days as well.
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Welcome Visitors from Ohayocon 2013! Thanks for visiting. I’ll be uploading photos once the con is finished and you can expect raw drafts uploaded within the week. Once these are up, I’ll begin the review and edit process and should have the best images cleaned up and online within a week after that. Hopefully I’ll be faster then this, but I’d hate to promise and have to change plans.

I’d also love to do shoots that are not at cons any time of the year. Currently any charges would just be transport costs and lunch (home-cooked is lovely, local specials are also great). I’m local to Columbus so it’d be inexpensive for anyone local and not too horrible elsewhere. That’d be for the day so lots of time to get everything done and even multiple cosplays. ^_^

Just got back and I’m totally tired. Currently I’m processing all of the photos and converting them before uploading them to a temporary gallery for viewing. If anyone spots a favorite and wants a special edit done, just let me know! I’ll update this once the upload is complete.

Final images are online in my gallery as well as on Facebook and Google+. Feel free to spread them about, edit and enjoy them. Attribution would be nice, but is not required for these.

You can also view them here by viewing the full post.

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Humble eBook Bundle

October 10, 2012 — Leave a comment

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Another day, another Humble Bundle. This one however is for eBooks rather than games or music. While they’re not actually the first bundle with books, they’re certainly the forerunners of bundles and it looks like they’ve got another winner. With over 23,000 bundles sold at an average of $11.93, clearly there’s a lot of support for this.

I haven’t had a chance to deeply review the books yet, however they’re a mix of fantasy and science fiction which was good enough for me. Once I toss them on my cell and laptop, I’ll have some reading when I’m out minus a net connection.

As I now have a laptop, I’ve been putting some thought into managing proper backups. While they’re important for any system, laptops are especially at risk due both accidental damage and theft. While there are a number of options, I’ve settled on two.

Firstly, I use CrashPlan for my primary backups. The service is reasonably priced and allows me to upload ‘everything’ from both my laptop and desktop so that in the event of drive failure, I’m set. Now It is worth noting that apparently the CrashPlan drives are not redundant, so should they suffer a drive failure you could lose your files. What this means for me is that I’ll simply keep a local copy as well. It’s a big step up from no backups at all and that’s enough for me. If you’re really paranoid or have especially important data, You’ll want a third backup as well.

Now CrashPlan is pretty good for what it does, but it doesn’t appear to do file syncing. As such, I’m using DropBox to share important files between my systems. This gives me the best of both worlds and I’m fairly comfortable with this setup. It should allow me to survive any drive failures on my end and the price is very reasonable so it’s not a huge expense.

Questions about either service? Feel free to leave a comment and I’ll answer them to the best of my abilities.

Disclaimer: The DropBox link is an affiliate link which will provide me with free space if you use it. I am not otherwise compensated by either company.

Something that always amazes me is how uniting cosplay can be. Pretty much anywhere in the world, Cosplayers still look like ‘my’ people.

Were you sent here from Matsuricon? Sadly, I didn’t have enough time to update the main site, however all my photos will be uploaded my gallery ( http://bioselement.zenfolio.com/ ) within 2-3 days after the con. Then I’ll work on post-processing for the best of those.

If you’d like the full images for use on other sites, feel free to message me and I’ll get them for you as soon as possible. And if you’re in the Ohio area and wish to arrange a shoot, again, just let me know. ^_^

So I think it’s fair to say things have been pretty dead around here recently. Well, that’s about to change very shortly. ;) Should be quite the surprise…