Another year, another FanimeCon down. This year's FanimeCon was particularly long, streching out for four days during the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend. Of all the comics-related conventions in the Bay Area, Fanime is probably my own personal favorite out of all of them. APE is a little too independent for me, and WonderCon is a little too comics driven. Fanime hits that sweet spot of a couple of interesting guests, a decent sized dealers room, and a large amount of cosplayers, which makes taking photographs fun for me.
Fanime was one of those cons I started going to when I first moved to the Peninsula -- back in the days when they were located at the Santa Clara convention center, and taking up no more than a few rooms. Now they can take up the whole San Jose Convention Center, and several of the surrounding facilities. The Masquerade, for instance, now takes place in the cavernous San Jose Center for Performing Arts. This seemed to be a good move on convention planners' part -- having a separate building meant that a separate queue could be formed for the masquerade without getting in the way of the convention's normal foot traffic.
FanimeCon 2007 Day 1 - Friday
FanimeCon 2007 Day 2 - Saturday
FanimeCon 2007 Day 3 - Sunday/Masquerade
The Masquerade gave me a good test environment for the new lens, although the lighting conditions were way above what I would have expected. I've never shot in stage lighting before, so I was blown away by the amount of light on stage, as well as the variability of the light on stage for any given performance. The new lens did not fail to impress however, and most of the pictures taken in the Masquerade set only required recropping and resizing, and nothing else. There are a couple that needed their light values adjusted, as the light varied from performance to performance, and I didn't compensate enough, or I overcompensated. In short: awesome lens, heavy as hell, can't wait until I use it again.
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