Living on the edge - How to save money

Because my income decreased during my futher education I had to shift the lifestyle I've incured.
So I started to analize where I need money and where it is pure luxury to spend it on.
That's why I start this serie "Living on the edge". I will describe how I saved money and will share my thought and experiments with you.

First of all I live in Switzerland. Everythin here is a little bit more expensive than somewhere else. So I was thinking about buy the expensive food and hygiene products in Germany. Why? Well hygiene products are around 1/3 or 1/2 of the price in Switzerland. But there are some problemes first how to get there...I don't have a car and with the public transport it is also expensive so I have to buy a lot that I can get the ticket price out. Another "porblem" is that I could invest the money in a swiss store so the people working there become enought money so they can life in switzerland too.
So i decided whene I visite my family who live near ther german boarder I will go and buy some stuff in germany like the hygiene products. So I can combine two things without extra costs. I would have visited my parents anyway so I could also go and buy some stuff there.

AnimagiC 2015

This post is all about what will come or at least what I haven't done at the Ani xD As you can see there aren't a lot of picture, because I had to realize that I'm still not besti with the hot temperature nor the sun 8"D so I just did two "shootings" and some "Don't jugde me because I'm a special Snowflack"-Picture xD

PinkiePeri as Star Guardian Lux
Source: League of Legends

Lola Bunny Shooting

Yeah it is a while ago but I wanted to present you another shooting set :D As you can read it in the title it is all about the beautiful Lola Bunny :D

Once upon a time...it was a hot summer afternoon AshenSky and I decided to shoot her new Cosplay. So we headed to the basketball court. And that is one of the shoots I could get there.

Fantasy Basel 2015

In this post I will write something about the Fantasy Basel 2015.


The fantasy basel occurred for the first time from 14.May till 16.May in, well you can guess it ;), Basel. 
Fantasy Basel was something of everything and for the first time it was great. But they have to expand next year, because for the price it was a little bit to little. But they laid a pretty good base for next year!

I was curious, so I was there for all 3 days. As you can guess this three days were full with talking to friends and strangers, collecting impressions and taking picture…a lot of pictures ^^’.
      JuubeiChanXx as Leslie Withers                                           SHI0N Cosplay as PantySimon Redfield as Sebastian Castellanos                                     Source: Panty & Stocking
           Source: The Evil Within

Fashion Shooting with SuiBui

I really wanted made a fashion shooting, so I asked a friend of mine if she would like to dress up and stand in front of the camera :D

It was very cold but also extreamly funny 8D as always with her :)

I tried to focus more on the beauty editing as I would usually do ^^
And I tried some black&white editing. I usualy don't like this kind of picture but I think it fits well.

You may ask yourself, why I don't like black&white pictures.
Well the reason is very trivial. I love when the pictures have a huge load of color so it looks like in a dream or in a fairy tale but also looks real.

I very often don't do a lot of retouch. The standart is some light beauty retouch (eliminate pimples, soften skin, eliminate flighing haires and sometime brightening the eyes, so that they pop a little bit out) and contrast and brightness adaptations.

Normally I would "rush" trough it, but this time I wanted to really focus on the beauty and the fashion. So it took me some time until the retouch was like I want it to be. The hardest part was the flighing hairs. XD They are everywhere and they are way thinner than when a person wears a wig. But it looks more natrual and healthy natrual hair is so beautiful *-*

She is a very talented and beautiful Cutie! Go and check her blog out, it is far better than mine 8,D

www.suibui.blogspot.ch

Polymanga 2015

 My first time that I went to the biggest Anime/Manga Convention in Switzerland :)

This 4 days were amazing :) I meet a lot of people and also see some friends ^^ and of course I was walking around taking pictures :D
Actually I shoot like a mad head 8,D but well thats another story I guess ^^'
It was my first big convention, where I took photos that looks like something x,D

I traveled to Montreux with some strangers and one of my friends was coming later on the same day. So on the first day I was completle on my own 8'D
 I had enoutgh time to look around and ask some cosplayer if they would like to have a short shooting :D My favorit Cosplay were the Ork and the magician from the game "Shadow of mordor".

Hetalia, Hetalia every where

My friend is such a huge hetalia fan, that she infected me with the "Hetalia-Virus" too 8'D.

The characters are all very sweet and cute and it is a nice "every day anime" x,D

On the day the shooting was talking place it was very beuatiful weather and very windy. But also pretty cold I guess ^^'

So the perfect weather to shoot two nordic characters. :P

The grafitti shoot

This post is about a shooting with some interessting background ^^.

I was walking home from the trainstation, because I took the wrong train I had to walk another way home.

And because of this lucky circumstance, I found a long bridge with alot of grafittis. Because I really like "Street-Art" I wanted to organize a shooting there.
No sooner said than done! I round up some friends and then we got out for a shoot. Of course it was January and bitter cold xD Well timing isn't always my strenght.

Because I wanted to combine the Cosplayer/Model and also the Street Art I had to experiment more than usuall. And the cold didn't helped, so after I guess about 30min we were going back to the train station. 

So I hadn't so much time to try out a lot and every thing has to be fast because the Cosplayer and also me were freezing and would be snow womans ;)

That you can check out the Cosplayer/Models here are the credits in the same order as the picutres are.
Iggy as Gothic Lolita

Asaliachan as Kentin
Source: Sweet Amoris

Suon Cosplay as Mizuki
Source: Dramatical Murder

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Märchenbrunnen

Between the two lost place shootings we had another shot in Berlin :3 

We decided to go and visite the "Märchenbrunnen". It is a huge park with a fountain where normally some fairytale figure are standing, but because it was autoumn of course there weren't any of this figures to see =(

Hohenlychen Shooting

And again my blog becomes spooky

For today I have also something goulish and something wonderfull 8DAs I explained Surya and JuubeiChanXx asked me if I would like to go with them to Berlin and shoot at Beelitz and Hohenlychen, two top lost places! 

This post is about Hohenlychen. It is a little bit far away from Berlin and is off the beaten track. BUT it is very beautiful and has some dreamy atmosphere *-*

Samurai Girl Studio Shooting

Today I would like to talk about my first "Studio Shooting". I guess it sounds way better than calling it "home imporved shooting, cause weather was bad". 

I wanted to organise a shooting on a weekend, so I asked some of my friends. The day befor we should had meet the weather changed dramatically. It started to rain and was very windy. Because JuubeiChanXx was cosplaying Juubei Yagyuu from Samurai Girls we decided that the shooting should take place somewhere it isn't wet or cold.

And one hounted the other and we decided it would be the best if we would shoot in my home ^^ 

First Indie Cosplay meet up in Bern

This was my first cosplay meet up as a photographer :D

We meet us in Bern, the capital of Switzerland. After we waited about 30min we headed to the rose garden! It was very muggy but the sun was shining.

One of my friends asked if I could do a shooting with her and a friend. Of course, I said yes ^^

They were cosplaying Alois Trancy (Iggy Canziani) and Hannah Anafeloz (Alessandra Kämpfen) from the anime Black Butler. I have to admit that I never watched this anime either. But at least I have heard of it ^^ 

Happy Friday 13th

And another Friday 13th

For today I have something goulish xD

Surya and JuubeiChanXx asked me if I would like to go with them to Berlin and shoot at Beelitz and Hohenlychen, two top lost places! Of course I said yes :D

We we had done about 3 days fool of shooting. First at Fountain of Fairy Tales directly in Berlin with the theme SnK (Attack on Titan). Second at Hohenlychen Surya as some kind of murder Alice from Wonderland and JuubeiChanXx as Touka Kirishima from Tokyo Ghoul. The last one was in Beelitz and we went full Tokyo Ghoul x,D

I will split up the post, because three shootings are way to much for one post ^^'

So I will start with the last one in Beelitz. The spookiest on!  

            

  

We had to pay 50 Euro for the tour that we booked at go2know.

Everyone who sayes, it is waist of money you could easily go in. I call that bullsh*t! They have security and the doors are all looked and also the windows. Beside that, the go2know team do a very seriouse job by organise every thing. Also they were very nice and open! Asked what's that about, that Surya and JuubeiChanXx were dressed very special.

As we got to the meeting point we started to explore the location and started to shoot and tape a Cosplay Music Video.

It was a very nice and interesting day full of wonders an creepy stuff x,D

JuubeiChanXx as Ken Kaneki 

Surya as Rize Kamishiro
Source: Tokyo Ghoul

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Hamatora Shooting

This shooting was very spontaneous. This time with Asaliachan!

I wanted to shoot in a chineas garden, so Asaliachan an I went to Zürich.

She dressed up as Satou Nice from Hamatora. This outfit fits her very, very well *_* Sadly I never watched the anime so Asaliachan gave me a short summary. Yeah at this time I wasn't anymore so into animes. But that changed a little bit trough the last half year ^^

Kumon and Japan Impact

On Saturday my friends and I were travelling to Leysin and Lausanne.

I had to get up on 6 o'clock in the morning..Jumping in to my new Cosplay, Daphne Black from Scooby Doo :)

And heading to the trainstation, where I meet my friends, Angela and Surya.

On 8 o'clock the train leaves and the journy beginns :D

We have to change the train two times until we got to lausanne. After we got to Lausanne we had to change the train once more for two times ^^

We got to the japanese school, Kumon, at about 12 o'clock.

The view was so beautiful <3 There was two buildings and alot to see. First we headed to the top of the first building. There was a flea market and a chamber of horror. Of course the two horror freaks wanted to go in the very dark course. Maybe you can imagen how easily I am scared. So we have to take of our shoes and wait a moment, so we don't run into the people in front of us...We got in and on the left side there was a bock where you should write your name in it. The door closed behind us and it was pitch-dark. Angela writed her name in the book. We walked, Angela in front, Surya in the middle and me the chicken-hearted at the tail, I will regreat this later x,D