WonderCon & Fanime Photoshoot Scheduling

• I will be at WonderCon Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This will be my first year attending WonderCon, and I’m really looking forward to it.
• I will be at at Fanime Thursday evening, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and possibly Monday.

If you are interested in a free private photoshoot at WonderCon or Fanime, please email me (public@oscarc.net).  After your shoot, you will be able to download free web-sized, watermarked photos from my web site. Full-sized, unwatermarked photo downloads and prints are also available from my site.

You can see photos from shoots at previous conventions at http://photo.oscarc.net/Conventions-Cosplay/Photoshoots-2010.

Future Conventions

For various reasons, I will not be attending Anime Expo this year.  I am considering attending Pacific Media Expo, and will almost certainly be at ALA 2011, so I will be able to do shoots of SoCal cosplayers at those conventions.  My next convention after Fanime will be DragonCon in Atlanta,.GA.

Photo Processing Update

There are five more ALA photoshoots and one AOD photoshoot that have not yet been posted. I’m processing them as fast as possible and hope to have them up very soon. Thank you for your patience.

One of the most frequent photography-related questions I get is, “Which camera should I buy?” Given the sheer volume of digital camera models being introduced every year, and the mega-hype associated with every trivial feature, it’s not surprising people have a hard time choosing a camera model. When I get asked this question, I usually run down a quick checklist of questions (budget? SLR or P&S? etc.) with the person, and then make one or two recommendations based on my experience.

Apparently, the bloggers at Make The Photo get asked the same question a lot too, because they’ve put together a flowchart with the same type of questions I normally ask, along with their own recommendations for each category of photographer. Their flowchart is available at http://www.makethephoto.com/how-to-choose-a-digital-camera/.

I love this flow chart for several reasons:

1. It uses roughly the same questions as I use, in the same order, so it matches how I decide which camera to recommend.
2. It recommends the same cameras as I would in most situations.
3. The flow chart is regularly updated as new cameras are introduced. The last update was a few days ago, when they added the newly-announced Canon T2i.

In other words, if you use this flow chart, you’ll get the same recommendations as if you’d asked me directly, assuming I was able to keep up with every new camera announcement. From now on, when someone asks me for a camera recommendation, I’ll first point them to the flow chart, and, if they have any questions, I can answer them. Yay for the Internet!