This is what happens when you say yes to a Con Committee...

[johno]

This weekend is Silicon, one of the SF Bay Area's Science Fiction conventions.

Last week I found in one of my rarely checked folders a invite to be a panelist.
I responded that if they still needed me, I can do the usual assortment of computer geek or costuming panels.

After some back and forth emails I ended on 5 panels and 2 events.

My schedule for the weekend:

Fri - 7pm: Meet the Guests
Sat - 10am: SysAdmin War Stories.
11:30am: Posing for the camera.
1pm: Stage/Presentation Movement
7pm: Fan Photo - Line wrangling, posing and some Pit Bossing.
Sun - 11:30pm (i think): Serenity Fan Panel

Comments

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

Heh, go to ANY Anime convention and see thousands of people in costumes and several thousands more with cameras.. OK, I exaggerated a little, but not by much.

I wouldn't say everyone is a photog, but it does make the "cost of entry" much lower.

[cambler.livejournal.com]

So you think there's a market for a pro photographer to do panels? That is, a pro who is also intimately aware of fanac?

I would very much do panels at decent cons in exchange for entry and room.

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

Well, getting compensation is another matter. In fact, you have the opposite effect - there are so many photographers, why should we (not me we, but the con we) do anything for you?

[cambler.livejournal.com]

Good question. I made a decent living for a time, during the dotcom boom, being flown all over the world to speak at development conferences. But those were events that charged the attendees over a grand to learn from me. Fools :-)

I suppose what I need to do is go off and get a commission shooting genre-specific stuff so I can be "the guy who shot blah blah blah."