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Teryl is going to be at the NY Con?!?

Just checked the con schedule, in hopes of figuring out how to squeeze in my non-fandom friends and noticed that:

- Michael Shanks has been removed from the guest list. Bummer. I do like to take pictures of the man. He's very pretty.

- TERYL ROTHERY HAS BEEN ADDED! I know, I know. It's impolite to shout but oh my god, I was just whining about how it seemed wrong to have a con without her and there she is!!! Oh joy!

katiedammit, is there anything now you want me to get signed?

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ARGH!

*goes about investigating tickets*

Yanno, it's criminal that I have front row, center seat but I don't have your photographic ability. (Or, I'd better have that seat. The ticket hasn't yet arrived in the mail :| )

I'd offer you a ride in the 2nd checked bag they let me take, but you'd have to lop off an arm and a leg to make the 50 pound weight limit. And once you've got 'em cut off, might as well hand them to the airlines for a seat anyway. The air is slightly oxygen-richer in the cabin. Or so I've been told.

I just ordered a preferred seat for Saturday.

*bounces around like crazy*

Will see you there!!

Yay! Woo hoo! :)

*is slightly calmer*

Can I bring anything fun for you sign-age wise? :-D

I know you've got the primo stuff, too. Yeesh -- I need to think this over. I HAVE to get her to sign a pic from Dallas where she had her face buried in Joe's belly. That'll be an excellent surprise for him. But I don't want that to be the only thing I get signed. Geez - I was so happy that I wasn't going to be spending money on extra signatures or probably even photos this time around. THAT is out the window now that Teryl is there.

Hmm...what kind of goodies do you have in the candy store?

The short answer: Anything on this page (http://www.rocketfic.com/wallpapers/wallpapers1.php), or this page (http://www.rocketfic.com/wallpapers/wallpapers2.php). I also have some pretty spiffy photos I took, including an 8x10 of the top photo on this page (http://terylicious.net/tulsa04/saturday.php).

All that said - if you have any custom requests, I'll try my damnedest to make it happen. I can probably do 16x20, but may only be able to offer 8x10.

Think on it and lemme know! :)

Hmmm...I'd take "Giddyup" in a heartbeat except that I've come to accept that I'll never in a million years see Amanda Tapping and get a matching autograph. :( I've got a couple of "half-signed" items and that's...disappointing.

I like Abstract, though, and that would eliminate the problem. I'd like to have that one, please. An 8" x 10" is perfect for me because that's just about the size of the drawer in which I store my autographs. How much should I bring for the photo?

I know what you mean... I never feel the stuff is "finished" until it's signed, and I've had to wait a long time to get some pics signed by both Teryl and Amanda. Luckily I have a nice collection now. :)

I just printed a 16x20 of that Abstract pic... I'm now looking forward to unfurling that in Teryl's general direction and having her mock me. I'd be happy to make an 8x10 for you.

Don't worry about $$. A couple bucks for the paper, max -- these things are way cheap for me to do, and I enjoy it.

Thank you. :) I know that ink isn't free, either. In fact, ink is frakkin' expensive.

Also too?

I hope you won't mind using your primo seating to snap a few shots for Terylicious (http://www.terylicious.net/) -- with full credit to you, of course. :)

Any photos I shoot that y'all want, you're more than welcome to them. I take a lot of photos but I'm a relative n00b to the photography world. I "solve" this problem by taking many, many, many photos and varying my settings. I get a lot of trash pics and if I'm lucky a couple turn out okay.

If I capture anything y'all want, I'm very happy for you to have it. You're asking for Terylicious, selmak is asking for Sel's site...I REALLY wish I took photography worthy of this hope. :|

I'm thinking of shooting some in the RAW format this time and seeing if processing it post-event helps.

I "solve" this problem by taking many, many, many photos and varying my settings.

Is there some "other" way to take pictures? ;) The only reason I have maybe half a dozen really fabulous shots of Ms. Teryl is because I've taken several hundred. Fortunately, she's a very tolerant subject.

*bounces some more*

You have no idea how much I'm looking forward to the impending silliness here.

My approach is more scattered than most because I don't have the experience to know how to set up a shot so that there's no more than a 1/xx-th of a second exposure because, say, I have a slight muscle tremor that blurs the pic. :| You're right, though, it's all about taking endless pics and hoping the planets were aligned just so and the pose was interesting and nobody else' flash overexposes your shot, and nobody bumps you, and on and on.

If you haven't been to any of the NJ events before, the lighting more than sucks. Dallas was so well lit that I thought they'd learned their lesson. It was a real pleasure to work with those photos. But NJ the last two years has been dark, dark, dark. It isn't limited to the venue because it was in two different hotels and both times the lighting was beyond bad. Hell, the first year, I had trouble seeing the guests from the 3rd row. I have a new flash just for this con. :| Don't know if that affects your planned equipment, but don't expect the Dallas-level of lights.

Oh, I think I'm starting to get the idea. :) I've been so lukewarm about this con for months and months and months. I even considered skipping it to go to museums instead. I'm thrilled now and can barely wait to find out who our new extra guest is!

Hey, depending on how much you're wanting to experiment -- I am planning to bring my monopod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopod) to this thing. It is nice and compact, but can really help with the blurriness factor. Would be happy to let you borrow it and play around.

I've been vacillating on getting a monopod. My real question is how much do they really stabilize? I got the remote shutter release to eliminate that part of the camera movement but I've hesitated on the monopod because I don't see how that solves the problem of my being not so steady. :|

What brand do you have/recommend? How late can I tell you that I'd like to try yours because I decided against buying my own?

Thank you for your very kind offer! I just might take you up on it if I don't have a chance to get to a camera store or decide I'd rather try before buying.

I think you'd find the stabilization factor pretty impressive... I've only used it at a couple conventions, but I got good shots from far away in crappy light, so it must have been effective. :)

I don't recall the brand off hand (it's at home and I'm at work, and my searches through online vendors are not being terribly helpful), but most such products are pretty inexpensive.

In any case, since I'm driving in, I don't mind tossing it in the backseat at all. Consider it yours to experiment with for the Saturday events if you'd like. :)

Thank you! You won't need it on Saturday? I assume you'll be taking photos?

I wish they'd make a monopod a little like a mic stand -- with a round, weighted base. That would probably do me wonders. Not really portable, which I think it the point of the monopod. :)

I rather suspect my seat will be bad enough that it won't matter if I have the monopod or not. I just wanna see Ms. Thang, anyway.

That design would be cool, but... impractical, I think. Especially for moving targets like hyper actresses who like to bounce around on stage or run around through an audience. :)

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