Pensacon

Not really sure where this should go, but 'People' seems most appropriate I suppose.

I'm not into the Comic Con stuff, but I had the opportunity to volunteer at Pensacon. I was 'working' for another photography studio at Pensacon, but this enabled be to get in free and then after my shift was up, I could go around and take photos of my own. Here are a few of them:

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boost_dependent wrote in post #16718979
Not really sure where this should go, but 'People' seems most appropriate I suppose.

I'm not into the Comic Con stuff, but I had the opportunity to volunteer at Pensacon. I was 'working' for another photography studio at Pensacon, but this enabled be to get in free and then after my shift was up, I could go around and take photos of my own. Here are a few of them:

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You can view them all here:
http://www.nostalgicim​aging.com …lio/Events/Pens​acon-2014/

If Vince Vaughn was in Ghostbusters 3.

Well done for on location shots.

Thank you. At least someone likes the photos out of the 400 something views lol

I like the perspectives and the processing, matches the subject matter very well. Nice work.

Really like #1 and #2. Not familiar with that show. What is it about? (did I just show my age?)

I do a lot of shooting at events of this nature.

Pretty good work with a wide-angle, nice use of perspective distortion in many of them.
It's tough to get a "clean" background in this sort of setting. If the subjects will cooperate, I personally prefer to stand a little farther away and use a longer focal length, to minimize background clutter ... but sometimes that's just not practical. Depending on the con and location, you can sometimes find a little out-of-the-way corner to set up a light or two, and then ask people to "step into your office" for a more controlled portrait ... I guess that's what you were doing with your other studio, though.

Inside the dealer's room (#8) is always a tough place to shoot. Usually you have fluorescents or sodium-vapor lights high overhead, coupled with dense crowds, making for a very tough shooting situation. Not bad, though at web size her face and lashes seem distractingly oversharpened.

I'm generally not a fan of pure B&W images for cosplay & costumes; the vibrant colors are often a very significant part of the overall look, and you lose something when you desaturate. Sometimes I'll do a very stylized B&W conversion, or a partial desaturation, but usually I'll add at least a little bit of color back in with split toning or a color overlay.

I like these and the processing esp. the butterfly lady.

Really good photos. The processing and perspective make them stand out.

Thanks for the positive comments; much appreciated. Yeah, this event was packed full of people and most of the time there was little to no room except for outside. I used flash on these too. I actually mounted a 430EX onto a monopod, complete with flash bracket, etc

windpig wrote in post #16732000
I like the perspectives and the processing, matches the subject matter very well. Nice work.

Agreed - really nice series of shots and the processing is perfect for the subject matter.

There's alot going on