London Film and Comic Con

One of the advantages now of living in London, is the ability to do last minute things, and go to concerts or shows etc. without requiring long train rides and hotel stays. I'd thought about (and wanted to) go to a convention like the London Film and Comic Con - Amanda has gone to quite a few, and managed to meet lots of actors, getting photographs and such. But I'd have had no clue about the tricks and tips of getting the most from a convention - queueing for autograph and photo sessions, how to get the most seen and done, etc. So when Amanda asked if I wanted to go along with her this year, I jumped at the chance!

I'll not get into the general play by of the day - queued up, got in, got tickets for 2 photo sessions (Alex Meraz from Twilight - New Moon and Jewel Staite from Firefly), wandered around, sat in on a talk by the Heroes guys, had my photo sessions...

So here are some photos of the day! I'll say now, that I was shooting manual mode the whole time, and with the lighting set to tungsten. Even so, there was still an orangey tint to some of the photos. With each one, I tested the "auto correct colour" in Photoshop Adobe Elements - sometimes this gave little or no change, but sometimes it really changed the colour balance to something a little more normal. I've marked these photos with a *colour correct*.

All together now - "Exterminate! Exterminate!" (*colour correct*)

Sitting in on one of the Heroes talks. Despite Sendhil Ramamurthy and Jimmy Jean-Louis being the big stars of the show, it was Dominic Keating who spoke the most - when questions were asked to everyone, he'd always jump in and talk first, the others could barely get a word in, apart from when questions were directed at them! Bruce Boxleitner was also one of the speakers.

(1st only is (*colour correct*))

Spotted a Cylon walking around:

(*colour correct*)

And an Ewok - one small boy shook his hand and just stood there, shaking it, bless! Then he got a cuddle too. (*colour correct*)

R2-D2 was trundling around... (both *colour correct*)

Then some cosplay guys - Predator (L), the middle guy is possibly Stargate SG-1 (correct me if he's someone else!), and the right hand guy is Alien.

The funny thing is that after middle guy bunny-eared Predator, Alien bunny-eared middle guy too! So funny - a dog collar on Alien, doing the bunny ears sign to middle guy, himself bunny-earing Predator.

All friends though... (*colour correct*)

Until middle guy gets on their bad side! (this was a totally voluntary pose for the public, I swear) (*colour correct*)

After that, Alien did stand over Stargate-SG1 guy, squat and lift, squat and lift lol. I won't post that photo!