Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
In this video I'm going to talk about a convention I'm
go to this weekend, hopefully. It's called c2e2.
It's a big science fiction comic pop culture convention. Lots of customers,
cosplayers, should be there of course. Gonna try to take photos. So I'm thinking
about ways to take photos. What should I bring? And it's been a quite a while
since I've actually gone to any type of convention and taking photos. So there's
a little bit of apprehension. It's... you know it kind of out of practice and
indecisive about what to bring. How to go about it. So I'm thinking about it, and
I'm going to go as light as possible. X100F. Has a nice decently wide focal
length. That's pretty much the reason I bought this camera is for situations
just like this. It's small, its unassuming. When you take a photo of someone,
they're not... They don't have this big camera in their face making them nervous.
And it just just really works out well in situations that are super busy, super
crowded. I have a little bag I'll be bringing with. So pretty much the
smallest that I've got that still is able to fit this camera. You can see I
added some stuff to it in the past. Goes with the theme of the convention.
Pretty simple! It has a few pockets here and there.
I do have info cards for people. I'm going to try to give them, or at least
try to motivate myself to give them out while I'm taking photos. So the people
can see the pictures afterwards, which is a good part of the fun... Is that these
people are able to see their costumes, you know, afterwards. So I have one right
here. This is my cosplay specific social media stuff where the photos will go. And
then on the back I printed out some mailing labels that you can use your
standard printer, and just put whatever you want on them. So I put the actual
Photography Banzai side which is the technical learning side of the photo
stuff. Pretty simple to do in that case. So I'm going to try to focus on simple
compositions. It'll be quick most of the time I'm sure.
And this camera, it just works out well in those cases. So if you go to similar
conventions, you do things like this. I'm curious to find out what you do in those
cases. Do you tend to go really hard? Bring a lot of gear and just get as much
stuff as possible. Do you do lighting in these situations it is really
challenging, so I'm impressed if you're able to manage that. There's only so much
room in a lot of the situations. Of course I'll have friends most likely
around, which I can spend a little bit more time left hopefully. We'll see.
Besides that I did think about trying to make some type of video. I can still use
this to get simple clips with 1080p, which is good enough. Just the autofocus
is not like the Canon. So I had considered bringing that as well, but
then I had to use a larger bag I have to potentially bring a tripod. Which I don't
think that would be a good thing. It's probably actually banned in situations
like that in busy conventions. Who knows, maybe not. But it would just
add a lot of extra stuff and potentially take away from the photos. And I don't
want that to happen. In that case maybe eventually I'll try to make
informational videos about the conventions we'll see. So all that said,
really the goal at least for me and I hope for you as well is to really enjoy
taking photos. Find what works best for you at least for me it's kind of towards
the side of simplicity with equipment. But I do try to grow in both ways with
the more advanced stuff when I can and the simple stuff when it's best to
really enjoy just taking photos.
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