New photos. Izta goes True Goth!
Well, for the duration of a photoshoot anyway. We'd decorated the cute little hat and made a matching choker on a whim some time ago; the armwarmers were a recent project by Izta, and led us to try to fill the gaps and turn it into an outfit worth shooting. The location really clinches the cliche, but graveyards are really pretty and I suppose they earned their position as the silver standard of goth photography. It worked with the colors, anyway.
My rule of thumb is that it's ok to do a cliche, so long as you do it at least as well as anyone you're likely to be compared to. This is convenient, since if you end up being compared to someone who did it better you can still count that as a compliment.
Technically, this was my first time wielding a SLR camera (I borrowed my dad's); off and by itself with about the same per-picture success rate as point-and-click, but editing from a raw format makes a really pleasant difference.
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