New York Comic Con had a lot of people running around with cameras which I’ll bread down into a few levels:

-Guys with cell phone cameras taking pictures of hot chicks
-Everyone else with cell phone cameras taking pictures of the well-costumed
-Guys with point and shoot cameras taking pictures of hot chicks
-Everyone else with point and shoots taking pictures of damn near everything
-People with cross-over cameras
-People with DSLRs who use flash on everything
-People with DSLRs with off-camera flashes
-Photographers that cordoned off an area to use as a studio
-Businesses that brought their own studios

I stove to be the antepenultimate item on that list but still have a ways to go regarding flash. Even on that rung, there were a lot of other people and we all probably got about the same picture of any given person. So how to make it different?

Here are a few pictures that I thought were unique:

Slender Man Dance Party

Stuck Ones

Wrong Angle
So, I think my style’s going to be “characters out of character”.

New York Comic Con is the largest of the East Coast nerd gatherings. The convention consumes most of the Javitz center spanning some four blocks. Every continuity in printing comic-dim goes at least somewhat represented and the list of B and C-list celebrities present breaks 100. I don’t read comics nor have I really ever but I like being familiar with them. My relationship with myth is similar in that I enjoy learning about Norse Myth without having read the Prosa Edda. This makes interacting with some fans hard as I can give you the outline of Crisis on Infinite Earths but have no idea how Hawkman was specifically effected.

I’m here for costumes. The excitement and enthusiasm that comes from someone in replica garb is somewhat contagious. It’s also a way of practicing portrait photography under less than ideal conditions. My pictures of the day are below.

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I attended one panel today. Compare this to Dragon*con where I averaged six a day. The panels here, in general, were less interesting to me and didn’t seem to have coherent tracks. If I wanted to spend the day talking to Marvel nerds in sessions, I don’t think I could. The lone panel was a short-story reading by Chuck Piloniak <tk his name>. Chuck is known for his graphic short stories and it’s not uncommon for people to faint or throw up during one of his readings. With this in mind, I didn’t feel bad when I felt queasy midway through hearing about terrible sexual misadventures. The reading began and ended with Chuck throwing plastic limbs into the audience. I’m not sure why but this seemed appropriate.

Comic Con had none of the party atmosphere of Dragon*con and this was reinforced by the venue promptly closing at 9pm.