BurCon 2012 :: Jensen Favorites (Still WIP)...
A couple of months ago I posted here that I wanted to try to use some of my own photos at Vancon for autographs. This is a first for me. I've always shied away from doing this because I feel like I could never find a good enough photo (let along more than one) and it just felt weird to me to have anyone sign something that was "them" rather than the characters they portrayed. (Yeah, like going to cons in the first place isn't a little bit weird. I didn't say it made sense. Ha!)
When I posted, I had one (count 'em, "1") photo that I kinda liked good enough for an autograph possibility. The last few days I've been pouring through photos from all six conventions I've been to. Even from the first LA Con where I was using an old point-and-shoot camera. I was able to pull out about 5-10 photos from each con that I thought I might be able to do with. I toyed with the idea of doing a con retrospective, having one photo with an image of the guys from each con I've been too. But I couldn't come up with something I liked enought.
But the good news is that the whole exercise really helped me narrow down all the thousands of con photos I had to a dozen each con that I really liked. I may do something with those. Perhaps between Vancon and Vegas.
In the meantime, I have two more photos of Jensen from Burcon that I'm adding to my favorites list. I'm printing these out as well and bringing them along to Vancon with the possibility that I might have him sign one.
Edit: Btw, these versions have the red de-saturated a bit due to the crap-tastic photo printer I use at Kinkos. Yeah, the printer likely isn't really that bad. Let's just say that there is something about the color profile for that printer that does not match well with my Mac's color profile. And all photos print out more red or more orange than they should be. I was so frustrated this afternoon printing. My son was along with me and man oh man did I want to salt and burn that printer. Since I'm printing these two tomorrow, I purposefully desaturated the reds & yellows so that I (hopefully) would only be printing them once. Usually I have an online image and a print image, but I do not have the patience to deal with that right now. :/
(click these to enlarge)
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When I posted, I had one (count 'em, "1") photo that I kinda liked good enough for an autograph possibility. The last few days I've been pouring through photos from all six conventions I've been to. Even from the first LA Con where I was using an old point-and-shoot camera. I was able to pull out about 5-10 photos from each con that I thought I might be able to do with. I toyed with the idea of doing a con retrospective, having one photo with an image of the guys from each con I've been too. But I couldn't come up with something I liked enought.
But the good news is that the whole exercise really helped me narrow down all the thousands of con photos I had to a dozen each con that I really liked. I may do something with those. Perhaps between Vancon and Vegas.
In the meantime, I have two more photos of Jensen from Burcon that I'm adding to my favorites list. I'm printing these out as well and bringing them along to Vancon with the possibility that I might have him sign one.
Edit: Btw, these versions have the red de-saturated a bit due to the crap-tastic photo printer I use at Kinkos. Yeah, the printer likely isn't really that bad. Let's just say that there is something about the color profile for that printer that does not match well with my Mac's color profile. And all photos print out more red or more orange than they should be. I was so frustrated this afternoon printing. My son was along with me and man oh man did I want to salt and burn that printer. Since I'm printing these two tomorrow, I purposefully desaturated the reds & yellows so that I (hopefully) would only be printing them once. Usually I have an online image and a print image, but I do not have the patience to deal with that right now. :/
(click these to enlarge)
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