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         <description><![CDATA[Have you ever dreamed of using photography to recreate your favorite superhero scenes?

Have you ever gotten inspired by reading a comic book or watching a superhero film enough for you to start working to recreate these scenes into photographs? Well that is exactly a day in the life of cosplay photographer, Jay Tablante.


Amanda Lynne as Batgirl (Photograph by Jay Tablante)

Origin Story
Tablante started shooting professionally way before he got into such a unique line of photography. Jay is a commercial, glamor, and fashion photographer by profession and has mastery of shooting portraits among many other things. But long before he first ever picked up a camera, Tablante has always had dreams of illustrating his favorite comic book and superhero moments. As a kid, he spent much of his time drawing his favorite characters but when the glorified stick figures couldn’t compare to what his friends were drawing, he put these fantasies aside.


Maria Song as Asuka (Photograph by Jay Tablante)

It was when he started shooting professionally when he infused these ideas into his work. He would create scenes that border vintage, fantasy, and the whimsical and later on ventured into homages of movies and animated films. It was in 2009 when he first did a full-on superhero shoot. At this time, the word “Cosplay” has not grown the popularity that it has today. Through the years, the term stuck to the kind of photography that Tablante did and hence the label was associated to his work.

Inspiration Strikes Like Lightning
As an overall pop-culture lover, Tablante’s daily life outside of work involves a lot of video games and watching movies. He says that inspiration often strikes during those times and he would wander off and grow the idea in his head at an exponential rate. When an idea hits and inspiration strikes, he would stop whatever he is doing and look for further inspiration. He would start collecting inspiration images of different pieces of the scene on Pinterest and brainstorm on certain elements that he would need to fully recreate a certain scene.


Dinny Grayson as Mantis (Photograph by Jay Tablante)

As the creative process for this kind of work would take a lot of time, preparation, production, and shooting, Tablante emphasizes the importance of jotting down all your ideas to avoid ever missing an important aspect of the project. The next step would be to list down props that would be needed, and of course, reach out to people he would want to collaborate with to see the idea into fruition. At this point, a much more concrete flow of execution comes to life and he decides on locations, lighting, props, and of course, his would-be models.

The Creative Process
Tablante’s images aim to strike viewers in a different way. This is one kind of photography where you wouldn’t even assume of the reality of the scene. With just a glance of his images, you would know that a single photo takes hours of work to recreate a scene that only happen in movies and illustrations.

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