I wasnвЂ™t really intense with any of it until two or three years ago. Of course I was a little kid and couldnвЂ™t afford making super cool cosplays, but I would do with what I had. Midwest BSFA: How long have you been into cosplay?ДЇinnell: I have been into cosplay since I was 2009. Since IвЂ™ve started photography IвЂ™ve photographed a bunch of people I would have never met otherwise.В Pretty much the whole process is a lot of fun. Plus, I enjoy editing so much! I also love meeting new people. I love having fun with the cosplayers, taking photos and goofing around. I feel like photos help you capture the characters youвЂ™re trying to portray and on top of that, all the work these cosplayers have put in. Midwest BFSA: Why do you enjoy photography?В WhatвЂ™s the best part about photographing cosplayers?ДЇinnell: I really enjoy capturing the beauty or awesomeness of the cosplays and cosplayers. My friends make fun of my name all the time because I canвЂ™t sit still or down. The irony, though, IвЂ™m very productive even if I donвЂ™t think so. Plus, IвЂ™m normally creating cosplay, doing photography, art and things when I should be doing more вЂњimportantвЂќ things. The deeper, cooler-sounding background was one of my friends came up with: Most people believe that cosplaying, art, stuff like that, is unproductive and a waste of time.

But it stuck and now people even call me вЂњDuckyвЂќ when they canвЂ™t pronounce or know my real name. I ended up turning it into вЂњduckвЂќ just to make it sound cuter, вЂњoriginal.вЂќ I transferred that to everything else, never thinking I was going to have to start giving it out to people. I really sucked at making usernames and was looking around my room. My friends were trying to get me on Tumblr during exam week and instead of studying and writing papers, I went online to make one. ItвЂ™s pretty lame how I came up with it, though. Midwest BSFA: How did you come up with your photography name?ДЇinnell: My name actually just came from my online usernames, Unproducktive. IвЂ™m completely self taught - from editing to shooting - as of now, so I know classes will only enhance my abilities. I wanted to take photography in school, too, and I will as soon as I get back to classes. When my original camera broke, I ended be investing in my camera I have now. Unlike when I was a kid, I loved being in front of the camera and I also loved taking photos of others. Oops.) That love just transferred over to cosplay. (My auntвЂ™s real photographer at her wedding got a little irritated with me because i was also posing and taking photos after she was done. When I came home, it was the same, I took pictures at my friends and familyвЂ™s parties, birthdays, weddings, etc. I took photos of everything while I was in Japan that year. When I got older, before I studied abroad in Japan the second time, this camera store was going out of business, and the last two cameras were 90% off.

My mom would be so upset cause they wouldnвЂ™t have even one photo of me on the trip. When I was younger, and would go on a trip my mom would give me those small disposable cameras.

Midwest BSFA: How did you get into photography?ДЇinnell: IвЂ™ve loved taking photos since I was little. SheвЂ™s currently booking photo sessions for the Cincinnati Comic Expo on Sept. Midwest BSFA recently talked to Amaji Finnell of Unproducktive Photography about her passion for photography and her love of cosplay.

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