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hazelchazSaturday, part 2 of 3. (See Part 1 to start at the beginning of this report.)
Susan de Guardiola wants a copy of A BEAR WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN #1. Several other people came up to tell me they'd RAE the ish I'd sent, and asked to be on the list for #3, including....
I met Ela Gepfert from Kotowice, Poland, and another Polish fan, Piotr Cholewa showed up at the same time. Later I asked another Polish fan who the movers and shakers in Polish fandom were, and they immediately said that Piotr Cholewa and Ela Gepfert were the ones to catch. So if we decide to add them to the Fan Gallery, I've got the pictures already in the bag. (Just need to chase bios and caption data...)
It turns out that, while we'd told photographers to check in at the photography area in Argyle 3 (Argyll?) at 18:00, there was actually a panel in there 'till 19:00. Six o'clock was also when we were going to make the final go/no-go decision, if it was raining heavily; it was bright and sunny, and stayed clear and not windy all evening, so we were definitely going through with bringing the costumers out the back loading dock, across to the Moat House, and into Argyll 3.
Nojay and henchmen were setting up the lights and backdrop in the back of the room while the panel went on, and I sat outside telling the prompter photographers to come back at 19:30. I was getting antsy, though, because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
library_lynn hadn't returned yet, and I had wanted to change for the evening. Allan MacBain, who had volunteered to help me with fan photography with anything I needed, came by, and at 18:30 we decided to let the sign on the door explain the 19:30 schedule time, and go off and try to get things done.
With Allan's phone, we looked up Number 36 St. Vincent Crescent, and I called Julie (our landlady). She was shopping, but would be home in ten minutes. Allan took me to Safeway (apparently Safeway U.K. used to be a corporate cousin to the American Safeway/Vons outfit), and we bought two kinds of fruit juice blends. (If I'd been paying attention I would have noticed both included raspberry juice, but I didn't catch that...) We returned to Number 36, Julie let us in, we went down to our room. Lynn was up -- she'd been zonked out all this time -- and I put on a pair of long pants and we headed back to the Moat House.
At Argyll 3, the lights and backdrop were about ready, and photographers had started to arrive. I started checking them off the master list (we had 30 slots filled), and issued them my own ribbon -- now they'd all have both the official convention-issued brown "Event Photographer" ribbon, and my off-white unofficial "Unofficial Photographer" ribbon which signified that they'd talked to me. People took seats, some people arrived who weren't on the list and we set up a "waiting list" row for them, four rows back from the line, so they could figure out where they wanted to jockey for a position to shoot over someone else's shoulder who'd signed up in advance.
When Nojay was trying to get the backdrop up, and later taken down, Vlatko Juric-Kokic was a great help because of his height. Notes for next time: A wider backdrop would have been very helpful, to allow photographers who were shooting at an angle from the left or right side to get a shot with all backdrop behind the subject. We compensated on a few of the entries by asking them to take a step to the left or to the right of center, but it would have been better if we'd had a backdrop twice as wide. Failing that, taking giant sheets of paper and taping them over the mirrors and reflective shiny surfaces next to the backdrop would have been a good idea, because the floodlights showed up in them throwing off the exposures. Also, a personal note, available-light photography doesn't work for me if I can't steady the camera; even with the light we had, my camera wasn't happy.
Susan de Guardiola wants a copy of A BEAR WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN #1. Several other people came up to tell me they'd RAE the ish I'd sent, and asked to be on the list for #3, including....
I met Ela Gepfert from Kotowice, Poland, and another Polish fan, Piotr Cholewa showed up at the same time. Later I asked another Polish fan who the movers and shakers in Polish fandom were, and they immediately said that Piotr Cholewa and Ela Gepfert were the ones to catch. So if we decide to add them to the Fan Gallery, I've got the pictures already in the bag. (Just need to chase bios and caption data...)
It turns out that, while we'd told photographers to check in at the photography area in Argyle 3 (Argyll?) at 18:00, there was actually a panel in there 'till 19:00. Six o'clock was also when we were going to make the final go/no-go decision, if it was raining heavily; it was bright and sunny, and stayed clear and not windy all evening, so we were definitely going through with bringing the costumers out the back loading dock, across to the Moat House, and into Argyll 3.
Nojay and henchmen were setting up the lights and backdrop in the back of the room while the panel went on, and I sat outside telling the prompter photographers to come back at 19:30. I was getting antsy, though, because
library_lynn hadn't returned yet, and I had wanted to change for the evening. Allan MacBain, who had volunteered to help me with fan photography with anything I needed, came by, and at 18:30 we decided to let the sign on the door explain the 19:30 schedule time, and go off and try to get things done.With Allan's phone, we looked up Number 36 St. Vincent Crescent, and I called Julie (our landlady). She was shopping, but would be home in ten minutes. Allan took me to Safeway (apparently Safeway U.K. used to be a corporate cousin to the American Safeway/Vons outfit), and we bought two kinds of fruit juice blends. (If I'd been paying attention I would have noticed both included raspberry juice, but I didn't catch that...) We returned to Number 36, Julie let us in, we went down to our room. Lynn was up -- she'd been zonked out all this time -- and I put on a pair of long pants and we headed back to the Moat House.
At Argyll 3, the lights and backdrop were about ready, and photographers had started to arrive. I started checking them off the master list (we had 30 slots filled), and issued them my own ribbon -- now they'd all have both the official convention-issued brown "Event Photographer" ribbon, and my off-white unofficial "Unofficial Photographer" ribbon which signified that they'd talked to me. People took seats, some people arrived who weren't on the list and we set up a "waiting list" row for them, four rows back from the line, so they could figure out where they wanted to jockey for a position to shoot over someone else's shoulder who'd signed up in advance.
When Nojay was trying to get the backdrop up, and later taken down, Vlatko Juric-Kokic was a great help because of his height. Notes for next time: A wider backdrop would have been very helpful, to allow photographers who were shooting at an angle from the left or right side to get a shot with all backdrop behind the subject. We compensated on a few of the entries by asking them to take a step to the left or to the right of center, but it would have been better if we'd had a backdrop twice as wide. Failing that, taking giant sheets of paper and taping them over the mirrors and reflective shiny surfaces next to the backdrop would have been a good idea, because the floodlights showed up in them throwing off the exposures. Also, a personal note, available-light photography doesn't work for me if I can't steady the camera; even with the light we had, my camera wasn't happy.
Photo area
Date: 2005-09-15 03:38 pm (UTC)I did the best I could from the audience, but it is hard doing indoor photography with a telephoto unless things are very bright or the subject is very still.
Keith
Re: Photo area
Date: 2005-09-15 06:41 pm (UTC)I'm sorry that you didn't hear about it. For future reference, most Worldcons do something like this, and it's usually coordinated loosely or tightly with the Masquerade people; so check in with the Masquerade people as well as the press relations office.
Chaz