SakuraCon 2011 - By JailBreak Photography

Check out this video I made from photos and video coverage I took at SakuraCon 2011.  It's primarily of the dance, but also contains photos of epic cosplayers.  Hope you enjoy!

Remember, remember..

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and the call weather already feels like it's transitioning into the cold winter weather.
I personally find it really beautiful during the fall season but it becomes difficult to go outside and take photos when your fingers are freezing cold, ha ha.
JailBreak Photography now has some hats made for several occasions. If people like them I may end up selling them but as of now they are for business purposes and to looks like in general.

In October I covered the Portland zombie walk for 2011, it was my first official Portland zombie walk and it was a lot of fun despite the hard-core rain.
As much as I wanted to cover the event as if an actual zombie outbreak had happened and I was a survivor with a camera, I decided to try and photograph each zombie participant that I saw to provide them with some quality photos of the Portland zombie walk as well as get the JailBreak name out there.

It's early in the month of November but I'm hoping to expand my portfolio a lot more before years end. We'll see how that goes!

Exploration and Confidence

Emily and Ashley in Multnomah Village in Portland, Oregon

Today I am rolling out to downtown Portland, and it's surrounding areas, to try and sell myself to all the glorious faces I see so regularly out there in the world.  I have been working hard on a solid foundation of pricing and policies that suit JailBreak Photography and am excited to offer my services!  I just hope people are excited to use them! Haha

I would really like to get my foot in the door to be able to cover the many live events that are here in Portland!  The dance and music scene here is incredibly active, I look forward to the people that do decide that my style would work well with!

KumoriCon 2011

So KumoriCon 2011 has come and gone.  This year KumoriCon 2011 was held in Vancouver, Washington.  Just a stone throw away from Portland, Oregon.  This is the first year I did not attend the convention as a gone goer and primarily as a photographer.  It was a lot of fun to see the con goers that I know, the people I am friends with, former models, old cosplay buddies, and making people happy with the photos I took of them.

I still have more photos to go through, so keep your eyes peeled on this blog to know where I'll be posting them!

Here is a gallery from KumoriCon I have on the website currently.  There are over a hundred photos, so take a moment and view them!

KumoriCon 2011 - Images by Jason DeSomer

Make like a tree..

Happy September everybody! 

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I'm sad to say that KumoriCon private cosplay shoots are not booking well.  Even though charging $40 for nearly an hour of private one on one time, edited photos, and rights to use the raw images for printing an sharing is a KILLER deal (and very, very low cost in terms of photography), I understand why people are not booking.  

Apparently there is a flood of amateur photographers who are providing shoots for people for very low cost, or free.  To me, that is awesome.  Cosplay photos have pretty much always been for fun. Only now am I trying to merge cosplay with my normal photography.  I would love to start some calendars and books and what not, but that's still in the process in my brain. 

With all this in mind, I will be dropping my price to $30 in general and $25 for people I've photographed before, or individuals that I have a good rapport with.  We'll see how that goes. 

 If I could score a couple press passes to the convention, that would be really great.  I could take photo journalistic images and have fun and still do private shoots.  The problem with that is, even though I have received press passes in the past for KumoriCon, SakuraCon, Wonder Northwest, Etc - KumoriCon has been ridiculous about denying me access.  I require a press pass to not have to muck around with volunteer staff hassling me for whatever reason they feel.  lol.. I'm gonna stop talking about that because I may start raging.

We'll see how things go!  I will have prints available for purchase on the site if anybody wants any.

Speaking of sites, I have been progressing on solidifying things for JailBreak's move to Portland.  The site is looking nice, pricing is flowing along, working on package plans today. 

Here is the Portrait gallery from my website, jailbreakdesigns.com

Portrait - Images by Jason DeSomer

Fall, is that you?

It's cloudy out right now in Portland, Oregon.  I've been pretty busy lately and enjoying life while taking great photos of awesome people.



This weekend is KumoriCon 2011 and I am booking private cosplay photo shoots and not attending this years actual convention.
This is my first year not attending the Anime Convention since 2005 or 2006.  The last 2 years have not been very good in the sense of the convention (I've had a blast with friends though).

I hope it all goes well! See you there?!

This is Cassandra Ferguson being herself in a recent photo shoot!

KumoriCon 2011 - Private Cosplay Photo Shoots

For information on JailBreak Photography's special pricing for KumoriCon 2011 private cosplay photo shoots, you came to the right place! 

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