I shot all of these in the piddly little park in my neighborhood, and around high noon, with a UV filter to prevent white washing of the colors, but made the frames very dark. So, I had to edit them later today. It was a quick photo shoot. Nothing major.
"Black UniGryphon" (blackunigryphon) Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 乌独角兽(烏獨角獸)任思麒 Art
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Friday, August 19, 2016
DSLR The DIY Mermaid Tail Cosplay Photo Shoot
I shot all of these in the piddly little park in my neighborhood, and around high noon, with a UV filter to prevent white washing of the colors, but made the frames very dark. So, I had to edit them later today. It was a quick photo shoot. Nothing major.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015
DIY Mermaid Tail: Preview
This was a makeshift mermaid tail I threw together due to the constant pestering of my daughter, since springtime, about wanting a mermaid tail. there was NO END to the begging, pleading, pestering, blubbering, sniveling, and whining!
She must've begged me to get a tail from "Fin Fun Mermaid" three thousand times! Then, she showed me uptteen-ba-jillian DIY videos, blogs, instagrams, and so on, of all kinds of dumb yuppies making complete fools of themselves & their money on junk, when they probably could've just bought one from "Fin fun mermaid" to support a small business... but, whatever....
Anyways, I'm broke as dirt!
So, what did I do?????
I got 2 old pairs of tights/pants/leggings/bike-shorts or not-quite-capri-pants from Old NAVY that were gonna become rags, or trash anyways.... my kid is also going through a sudden growth spurt, so there's no friggin' way I'm buying a mermaid tail, tailored to her June-sized-body, when she's already outgrow her swimsuit, n had to get a new one on clearance!
I cut up the pants into segments.
Then, I sewed them together w/my sewing machine using honeycomb stitch.
I kept the extra pants' elastic, to tie up the fins part later...
It took forever, because my machine kept falling apart, malfunctioning, or breaking, so I would have to disassemble my machine, and reassemble it multiple times. Also, in the middle of it, we had a major heat wave, humidity finally arrived, then power surges & thunder storms... oh, and I had a job interview.... That, and trying to juggle fixing the situation w/our food stamps, and getting them reinstated... financial conferences, and I sprained my ankle, and had to go to the E.R.
The fins are 2 main components:
* Flippers (S.C.U.B.A. Fins)
* and an old 2002 Boho scarf skirt overtop of the S.C.U.B.A. Fins.
That's it!
I sewed the segments, made sure it looked right, then, she puts on the flippers and the skirt over top, then you tie with the leftover elastic.
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She must've begged me to get a tail from "Fin Fun Mermaid" three thousand times! Then, she showed me uptteen-ba-jillian DIY videos, blogs, instagrams, and so on, of all kinds of dumb yuppies making complete fools of themselves & their money on junk, when they probably could've just bought one from "Fin fun mermaid" to support a small business... but, whatever....
Anyways, I'm broke as dirt!
So, what did I do?????
I got 2 old pairs of tights/pants/leggings/bike-shorts or not-quite-capri-pants from Old NAVY that were gonna become rags, or trash anyways.... my kid is also going through a sudden growth spurt, so there's no friggin' way I'm buying a mermaid tail, tailored to her June-sized-body, when she's already outgrow her swimsuit, n had to get a new one on clearance!
I cut up the pants into segments.
Then, I sewed them together w/my sewing machine using honeycomb stitch.
I kept the extra pants' elastic, to tie up the fins part later...
It took forever, because my machine kept falling apart, malfunctioning, or breaking, so I would have to disassemble my machine, and reassemble it multiple times. Also, in the middle of it, we had a major heat wave, humidity finally arrived, then power surges & thunder storms... oh, and I had a job interview.... That, and trying to juggle fixing the situation w/our food stamps, and getting them reinstated... financial conferences, and I sprained my ankle, and had to go to the E.R.
The fins are 2 main components:
* Flippers (S.C.U.B.A. Fins)
* and an old 2002 Boho scarf skirt overtop of the S.C.U.B.A. Fins.
That's it!
I sewed the segments, made sure it looked right, then, she puts on the flippers and the skirt over top, then you tie with the leftover elastic.
A photo posted by Kandice Zimblemam-Wang 任思麒 (@blackunigryphon) on
A photo posted by Kandice Zimblemam-Wang 任思麒 (@blackunigryphon) on
A photo posted by Kandice Zimblemam-Wang 任思麒 (@blackunigryphon) on
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A video posted by Kandice Zimblemam-Wang 任思麒 (@blackunigryphon) on
Here's a preview of her getting ready to swim in the pool. I expect to have a lot more photos of my daughter, Heidi, in her mermaid tail.... but, I have to start training at my new job tomorrow....
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A photo posted by Kandice Zimblemam-Wang 任思麒 (@blackunigryphon) on
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A photo posted by Kandice Zimblemam-Wang 任思麒 (@blackunigryphon) on
Coming Soon!
Expect to see more, of my Mermaid Daughter in the water, in the following blog posts.
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