This is a new thing, but I am planning to put up some outrageous piccies from the Con once I get them developed.
Went to shoot a photo essay again this year, thinking, damn, gotta do better than I've done in past years. See, I don't own a 50mm lens. Think they are E-VILE. Every picture looks the same.
But DragonCon is so overwhelming, such a visual feast, so rich and rare and extreme in every way possible, I'd always went nutters with my 24mm Nikkor, beautiful glass that it is, throw the damn kitchen sink in the picture while you are at it.
And so you get your shots back and they look like every ambulance accident scene I've ever chased , everything far away and small.
I'd read a story once about a lady who shot for National Geographic with a Leica and nothing but a 24mm lens. She said she did it because it forced her into a level of intimacy with her subjects, etc. blah blah blah.
Having shot in India, 24 mm was still quick and dirty and worked fine for me, but you really don't want to be invading people's spaces in India. Besides being rude and showing lack of respect, I think there are other ethical problems about forcing yourself on people like that. Besides making everyone look ugly with big old honking noses...
Intimacy, that is forced upon me more with my 85mm. (I should preface this: I hate zooms. Don't know how I got that way, but I just hate them, maybe cuz all my cheap zooms suck and are too slow)
DragonCon natives are not as averse to cameras as people in India.
So we'll see how this experiment turned out, by next payday maybe. I couldn't get lazy and show the scope of DragonCon like a Bruegel (sp?) painting. I had to find focal points, keep them cropped in camera, and make the picture about more than crazy costumes.
Miasma
11:38:30 PM 
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