Slideshows of some of the awesome cosplays I saw in 2013. Can’t wait to see what I see in 2014!
Click on the link below to get access to your Pop Expo photos.
As mentioned onsite, let me know if you have any issues with your images, or if you want them moved to a private folder or simply emailed to you.
QUICK EDIT – SUNDAY NIGHT – All of the photos should be up EXCEPT for a few Star Wars ones because lightsabers. If your photos are NOT on the Dropbox folder, don’t fret. But do let me know and I’ll hunt them down for you.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xp6iicon1ptl84u/HdSpE1UKDP
Pop Expo is in Ottawa on December 7 and 8. It’s a smaller con than Comiccon but brought to you by the same awesome team – it’s going to be a good time.
I’m doing the photo booth again, with adjustments on pricing and offering. I’m going to price the service more along the lines of time spent rather than on number of people. The base price will be higher, frankly because I wasn’t charging enough in Montreal for what my customers were getting, but you’ll get more pictures.
For the base price, which I have not yet figured out, you’ll get a full body shot, a closer shot and a nice portrait. The price will increase if you want a mini-session, or if you have a large group and you want individual shots to go along with the group shots. Probably $20.00 as a base price. Your photos get uploaded to Dropbox, and you just have to go to my site to get the link to the files on Dropbox.
I edit ALL of the photos that go to Dropbox, and I add light and lightsaber effects as required.
If you are looking to do an engagement shoot you can book a time slot with me at this convention – it’s going to be awesome. You WANT to do a cosplay engagement shoot, admit it.
If you belong to a group or club and you want at bulk price for all your people, talk to me. You people work very hard on your costumes, and you absolutely deserve to have good photos of yourself to remember the convention.
I’m freely posting my business model and my prices here. If you are a photographer and you want to go to this con to try to undercut me, bring it. I welcome it. My pictures are AWESOME. All of the feedback is good. Know also that there are booths at these cons that do FREE photos with printouts, and people still come to me.
Here are photos taken at Montreal Comiccon in September 2013. See you in December.
If you’re looking for 2013 Montreal Comiccon photos, you have come to the right place.
The photos taken in my booth are here:
Facebook (selected images)
Youtube
This was A BLAST to attend.
So what did I learn from this experience?
1) I didn’t charge enough. I was constantly busy shooting and editing and shmoozing, and I did not turn a profit. Even though some people were shocked that I wanted money to take a photo… by the end of the con people were ready to pay because they saw the results of previous shoots. For those of you who trusted me to take their pictures, thank you.
2) My booth was too plain – in particular, I didn’t have prices posted, and I didn’t have a second screen to show images continually. We’ll fix this for next time.
3) I went to Montreal on Thursday – We could have saved a night’s expense by going to Montreal on Friday morning. My booth doesn’t have a lot of stuff so we would not have had loading dock issues. But my wife was very happy to have me to herself on Thursday afternoon and evening. So it worked out for us.
4) I was the only shooter/editor. I could have used some help to process images, or shoot. This is a tough one, because frankly I would need to build up trust before giving up all of the creative control.
5) Shooting tethered to my Mac Mini, using my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phone for internet, and editing the images as they came in, worked like a dream. For simple shoots, the images were up on Dropbox 2 minutes after the shoot.
6) People like having a shooter who directs them, and who knows the subject material related to their costumes (Or a shooter who has a teenage daughter in the booth who can fill in the gaps in his anime knowledge).
7) So… should I go to Pop Expo in December in Ottawa? (update – I’m going.)
Getting ready for Montreal Comiccon, I asked my lovely friend Rita to bring her best costume to a test shoot – just to see how I would set up my booth at the con.
Here are a few of the shots we ended up with.
Rita is even more lovely in person, in case you were wondering.