Wolfheinrich's World

Like a blink of an eye really, one whole year has gone by and I have finally achieved one of the major milestone of any bloggers – hitting the first anniversary!  I must thank you for all of your support, visits, clicks, comments and encouragement!  Looking back when I first started blogging, my original goal was to introduce myself to the worldwide of Otaku that I – Wolfheinich exists here!  I think I have mentioned in the past, I was very much like a closet otaku, I have little real life friends that share my interest, I have no way to share my joy of unpacking my new figures or do I have anyone to converse with how cute this 2D girl is or what not.  What I desire most, is to seek out to like minded otaku who can share my interest, making new friends.

Stumbling onto Dannychoo.com was a major turning point for me, I never knew there is an online community like that before!  After spending a few days on Danny’s site, I decided I too want to become a blogger so I can really introduce myself to the community.  After one whole year, I am confident to say that I have achieved way more than what I had in mind.  I have made a bunch of new friends, gotten into Dollfie Dream (which is like the greatest thing since sliced bread), and even traveled to Japan to see Odaiba Gundam, Kamen Rider Decade and Evangelion 2.0 movie with fellow Dannychoo member Fumoffu.

Let’s take a quick look at the transformation that Wolfheinrich’s World has gone thru in the past year!  I really had no idea what to blog about at the beginning, so I started off with a my room post soon after I began! (continue reading…)

It’s been a while since I had done a loot post, and for the lack of better words, I have been busy tending to other matters and didn’t have time to clear up my room to setup the light umbrella set again.  However, that excuse has run dried since I am currently on my year end vacation which will last until the beginning of next year.  I am going to try to catch up on a bunch of things in the next couple of days.  Now, just because I hadn’t the chance to update my blog didn’t mean I stop buying stuff for myself and my Dollfie Dream Daughters (also known as DDD). So, without further ado, let’s dig in and see what I have got this past month~

1. Saber Lily Dakimakura (Yahoo Japan Auction)
2. Alicesoft 20th anniversary collection – Alice 2010 PC game with pocket watch
3. Mikuru Battle Waitress outfit (Yahoo Japan Auction)
4. Pia Carrot 3 Paro Paro Waitress Uniform (Amazon Japan)
5. FU Shibata Chair No.05 Leather Chair (burgundy) volks
6. La Parsonal Collection Pink Maid Dress (Ebay)
7. Saber Plain clothes with custom floor mop (Yahoo Japan Auction)
8. Estel Freesia Default clothes (Yahoo Japan Auction)
9. Tnk DDTK-070 Love Cat Set (Volks)
10. Tnk DDTK-013 Maid Dress short skirt (Yahoo Japan Auction)
11. Tnk DDTK-026 Christmas Carol Set X 2 (volks)
12. Black high heel boots (Yahoo Japan Auction)
13. White high heels (Yahoo Japan Auction)

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A few days ago, blogsphere comrade Tier celebrated his acquisition of the rare and limited edition of pre-painted version of the 1/4 Uesugi Kenshin from Volks A-brand.  I promised him to take a few pictures of my own 1/4 Gathering version for him to compare the finishing quality between the two.  That reminded me, I never quite taken pictures of my 1/4 army, might as well take this chance to snap a few pics eh?

For those of you who are not familiar just who this Uesugi Kenshin is, please take a look at one of my earlier post for the 1/5 Uesugi Kenshin Freeing version.  In 2007, in a survey done by Tech Gian, Kenshin narrowly defeated Saber from Fate Stay Night to become the most popular eroge game heroine of the year.  Enough talking, let’s dig in~

As usual, click on pictures to show full scale image~

I picked up this Kenshin a few years ago, obviously I haven’t gotten in Dollfie Dream then.  I have always treasured this Kenshin as the most elegant painted figure I have ever owned, like a goddess descended from heaven.

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Seems like I have been making Dollfie Dream related posts a lot recently, so let’s break it up with something else~ What we have here is the 1/4 Fate T. Harlaown Swimsuit version that just arrived at the door today, I have been longing for this figure to pair her up with the previously released 1/4 Nanoha.  I wasted little time to take her out of the box and set her up for a photo shoot.

From the story stand point I personally prefer Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s but I have to say I am more attracted to the mature Fate in the StrikerS series~ It’s ok to say that right? Haha

For additional pictures and review, please visit blogging comrade Meronpan’s review and James’s review in Exelica Meteor

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It’s been a few days since Airi arrived at my residence, and I have to admit that I have grown to like her more and more as each day gone by.  So it’s natural that I put together a photo shoot for her with a proper background~ I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do

The first order of business, is to recreate the pose I deemed the sexiest Airi PVC figure to-date.

I think I managed to get pretty close, I had to try several times to get her legs to position like this.

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Thank you for those who has taken the time to provide some valuable feedback to me regarding the Hikari Photo Studio upgrade (in reality, just an exercise to fine tune my Nikon D5000 for indoor photography by using the Nikon Software Camera Control Pro 2.5 along with my Cowboy Studio light umbrella set) , special thanks to figure.fm comrades Otaku Dan, Rochefort Schubaltz, Tequila and Koshiko for providing valuable opinions for me to improve my Hikari Photo Studio.  I spent the better part of today making various adjustments based on those feedback and I’m back to report the progress I have made so far!  For comparison sake, most of these shots feature my lovely daughters in nearly identical pose throughout (it’s difficult to get them back into the same pose if I were to move them just for the sake of moving them around >.>;;;).  Though I did try to spice things up here and there!  Anyway, enough of talking, let’s get to the shots!

So I started off with the Day white fluorescent since it has the 79% lead from the survey yesterday at figure.fm.

While it may be slightly better than the auto white balance, but the tint of amber/yellow is bothering me somewhat so I know I have to do something to get rid of that yellow tint….

So I went into Camera Control Pro to try to fine tune some white balance settings so I can maximize the ability of my Nikon D5000

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It’s been a little over a month since I have made the jump to the rank of entry level DSLR with the recent purchase of Nikon D5000, and I have to say I am very pleased with the result I have been able to achieve with the Nikon D5000 so far.  Some of the photos I have taken with my dollfie daughters outdoor were quite a bit better than what I was able to achieve with my old Sony DSC-F707.  However, indoor photo has remained to be a challenge up to this point.  With the weather turning cold, it has become increasing unlikely that I can take my dollfie daughters outside again this year.  So it was time to finally invest in a continuous light umbrella set.

I didn’t want to spend a lot of money so I was definitely looking for some sort of a bargain so I ended up picking Steve Kaeser  ProStudio Light Kit 600 watt from Amazon.com.  The Light Kit came with everything for me to get started:

• High output  “COOL-FLO” fluorescent bulbs equivalent to 300 watts incandescent each, total 600 watts
• Pro umbrella holders with umbrella mounts, 12′ Power Cord and On/Off Switch.
• SK306 light stands extends 6 1/2 feet, made from aluminum alloy with black matte finish.
• Pro 32″ Pro umbrella white/black, softens and diffuses the light.

The kit actually arrived several days ago but one of the daylight bulb was dead on arrival, I contacted the shop Cowboy Studio and asked for a replacement bulb, they sent one to me without asking a second question, good service.  And here we have a couple of photos with different light setup and white balances:

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Been quiet for the past couple of days, but I finally started to feel better for the past day so I decided to catch this chance to go out with my Dollfie Daughters again.  The main objective this time was to correct a few oversights I had in the last outing so I had to take Asuka and Rin out again, but that would be a tad too dry just to keep taking photos of those two so I decided to take Saber out with me as well.

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More loots have arrived on this fine Saturday afternoon and I am just more than happy to perform a thorough inspection.  Most of the goods that I ordered after I came back from Japan have arrived, and that means the long awaited Dollfie Dream size Decade Driver, Rider Booker and DiEnd Driver, the highly anticipated mini Revoltech Asuka, Bandai Movie version Asuka, Cospa Asuka T-shirts, plus a little more Dollfie Dream outfit and undies have arrived.

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Well, I guess luck is on my side after all.  We have a decent weather here in the Midwest and it’s only partly cloudy so the Sun was out most of the day.  So I got to live up to my promise and took my girls out for another photo shoot back at the wonderful flower bed.  I am so happy that I am no longer limited by the memory of the camera, I shot most RAW + JPG today and I got to say it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to do that without any worries!  This is the first time I shot with the RAW format and I got to say, it’s just amazing!  All the exposure and color temperature information are recorded and I can tweak it very easily with the ViewNX software that came with my camera.  A less than perfect shot due to cloud shading is easily fixed with the ViewNX software!  I took a little over 200 shots today but a lot of them were test shots with varying parameters and angle, I think about 10% of them came out just the way I wanted it.  So, without further ado, let me share some of this new set of photos with you, hopefully you would enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them!

First, let me introduce my new model for the day!  My fifth daughter Rin Tohsaka!

It’s difficult to get a direct shot of Rin without her hair getting in the way, so I have taken a lot more side way shots.

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