photoshoot

Bonsoir
Je voudrais savoir si l'on récupère bien ces photos le jour même ?
merci .
Pouvez vous aussi en dire + sur les prix ? et si tous les acteurs dont des photos ?
merci .

And what's the format?
A4 or A5 (like last year) ?

Okay... photoshoot with actors SUCKS!
I lost a whole afternoon with those photoshoots.
Haven't seen any of the Q&A's. Walking aroud and buy something... well, there was no time for it.
Where's the time you could take a pic with an actor at the signingtables?
That made FACTS special. Even if we had to pay a little more.
Than we had time to walk around.
Sorry, but it's the first year it really sucks...

I totally agree with that !!!!!! I stayed to 7:30 pm to have finally my photo with Robert picardo. I believe however the printer and the method used by the photographer is not the good one.
There is others convention who there are also photoshoot and it's a better organisation !!!
For example, at the London con, you buy a ticket in advance on internet. There is a number on every ticket and they call people by number (0 to 20, 20 to 50, etc.....). So,you don't do the qeue for hours.

And for the autographs, when you arrived in the convention, you take a ticket with a number near by the stars and it's the same thing than the photoshoot.
With this organisation no qeue for hours in every side. So, you can see other stars or buy something.
It's really better organisation than this.

Ah yes, I have forgot to say that my picture is a little bit vague. It is not really professional !!!

the queue's at the actors moved much faster thanks to the photoshoots .
usually i try to get my pic taken with an actor,this year i was content with a few pictures of them while i was waiting in the queue.
more time to shop around like that.
although i can understand whats it like for people who lost lots of time at the photoshoots.

I worked as a FACTS volunteer at the photoshoot boot of Aztek-TV and saturday was - we all agree on that - incredibly hectic and we fully understand that it was a hell for those fans that had to wait for hours before their picture was ready.

There are reasons why this took so long, but excuses won't take away the fact that many people lost valuable FACTS-shopping time on saturday.

On sunday, however, we had the SAME photoshoots, and all went incredibly smooth. Up to the point that by the time it was 5 o clock and FACTS was over, all pictures had already been distributed and the majority (if not all) of them was ready within one hour. (To compare: on saturday they were done at 8 and closing time was 6!)

This was done with the same equipment, with the same team, with the same actors, with the same time schedules. (Actually, the sunday held an unexpected surprise: Billie Dee Williams did not show up in time for his shoot at 3PM, instead, he suddenly came in between the A-Team actors and Robert Picardo - yet still we were in time on sunday.)

But we had learned one valuable lesson by then: Do not take pictures at the A-Team van.
This was actually what caused the delay on the saturday. Setting up all the camera equipment at the van took too long, it took 15 minutes minimum. The queue for the A-Team actors was also rather huge and by the time we had finished, moving the equipment back also took 15 minutes. (Now, you might say: that distance is covered in 1 minute! True, but this equipment needs to be adjusted after every move as well and I believe some of the flashing devices needed a bit of time to warm up - though I am no expert on that.)

That is where we lost valuable time.

Something else where we made the mistake... At the very beginning of the saturday, some people would start pressuring us that they wanted their picture because they already wanted to leave half an hour after after their picture was taken. We tried to give these people good service at first and print their pictures, but this put many of the other pictures on hold. We lost time there.
On Sunday, we made no exceptions. Everyone had to wait their turn, no one could get their picture before the people that had gone before them, and this way, we lost no time with "special cases". The images kept on rolling out of the printer this way and in general, everyone was helped quicker because of this.

Another miscalculation was also how incredibly succesful these photoshoots suddenly were. On the Saturday of FACTS 2010, I believe they already got to the same amount of pictures they had to deal with in FACTS 2009 - for the two days together!
This also had to do with the fact that there were many big names at FACTS this year, and I know Aztek-TV was also expecting more people for the photoshoots, but the saturday still blew them away.

I really hope that you will not look back on FACTS with bitter feelings because of this and that you still have some good thoughts of FACTS 2010 that you took home with you. We will try our hardest to avoid the identical issues of the saturday in the future editions of FACTS.

There's still a lot of room for improvement, there is no denying that. But I would say: do not worry too much, the people of Aztek-TV and FACTS were not blind to your discomfort in this matter and will work their hardest to avoid it in the future.

Question: I did the photoshoot, but I forgot to pick up my pictures. Will they appear online somewhere? (like Aztec-tv's website or something?)

The pictures should be up on Aztek-TV's website in a week or so, it could be a bit more. These pictures are small formats though, good enough for Facebook, but not for printing them out yourself.

But I do know that we had 3 pictures left or so of people that were there on saturday, but never came to pick it up. I believe all pictures of the sunday were distributed on time.

If you have a picture of yourself on FACTS that saturday (I suppose you were there on saturday?), and you could send it to me along with the names of the actors with whom you took a photo, as well as your e-mail address, I'll get you in touch with Aztek-TV and they will arrange something.

I think the "doodsteek" for the saturday was the fact that Face and Murdock had been on "De Laatste Show" on the friday. Everyone in the queue for the FACTS pictures was talking about that... I think that without them appearing on the Last Show, I think we would have had a great deal less visitors and less problems with the photoshoot on the saturday.

But at the same time it is also great that FACTS is becoming more popular, it gives us room to grow and to get even more amazing guests for next year!

It appears I posted in the wrong thread.
What I meant to ask was whether the photos from the cosplay photoshoot will be uploaded somewhere or not. The photographer showed me some of the pics he took and they looked pretty awesome.

EDIT: yes, they are posting the pics online on the aztec tv website. (I'm going to leave this here should anyone ask the same question)

I was at first a little bit mad that we couldn't take a picture with the actors at their table. So I did the photoshoots. And yes, I lost time and money. But the result was great, even better than I expected. Jewel was the best for the photoshoot. So lovely.
I am sure they will deal with the problems we had this year. Maybe trying to lower the price?

There were pro's and contra's at the photoshoots. But I must also say that Cartoonjessie did a wonderfull job at the photoshoot. She explained it very well to the people, be sure the line wasn't in other people's way and had a nice little chat with her. Kudos for Cartoonjessie.

If you paid for it, then it will be sent out. I sent out a mail just now to the people of Aztek-TV, asking if they had already been sent out, then you will know when you can expect it in your mailbox.

There were 3 people that made a picture on saturday, but they did not pay for it to be send out or come back later on the saturday to ask about the picture. So we have 3 pictures that were never picked up, with no contact details of the people that left them. (Also on sunday they were not picked up.)