I was headed to New York for work so I managed to stop by IPL3, IEM and MLG for a few days each~ I'm just gonna combine all the photos into this post so I don't end up spamming three separate threads. :D
Mandatory PS: Please feel free to share the photos with the rest of the community, but please don't crop my watermark away and do credit me if you use them in any articles. Thank you~
I probably have the least photos from IEM because I only went for a day and it was mostly to watch my player Edge play ;; but I guess it at least gives you an idea of how the venue was like~ very different from MLG/IPL but still nice nonetheless :D
IEM NYC took place at New York Comic Con in the Javits Center. The IEM venue itself wasn't huge but I think it was quite nicely setup. The casters booth was positioned at the very front of the IEM area where passersby can take picture of them easily, against the back of the live audience, who'll get to see them on the huge screen on the stage.
I also really liked how they had screens for every player's player cam, made watching matches really easy when the game I want to follow isn't casted.
Casters booth!
The towers were really pretty ;o
iSEdge
GoSuPokeBunny
oGsTOP
FnaticTT1
People starting to stream in in the morning
All the SC2 players play their matches on the stage! I thought that was pretty nice.
R1ch and the sexy waxangel
TSLKiller talking to MouzMaNa
MrBitter & RotterdaM
MaNa
TT1
Elfi
Crowd~
MrBitter
DongRaeGu taking photos with a fan
Performance wise Edge beat Elfi in his group but lost to FruitDealer and Axslav T.T I'm sure it was a great experience tho and I'm proud of the fact that he managed to qualify for the event~
Omg you have no idea how long I was waiting for you to upload your picsssss :D So freaking amazing as always ahhhh Still so sad I didn't get to see you at IPL T___T I hope you're feeling better though ~ so much traveling recently !!
On October 20 2011 07:48 Shinespark wrote: Great pics. But you should take every pic of Rachel and Anna and replace them with photos of Smix. Also I think Smix should replace Milkis at MLGs.
Smix fighting!
Lol I appreciate the love ;; but Rachel and Anna are amazing and should definitely not be replaced (not to mention awesome personalities as well)! And Milkis is translating bonjwa ~_~
On October 20 2011 07:48 Shinespark wrote: Great pics. But you should take every pic of Rachel and Anna and replace them with photos of Smix. Also I think Smix should replace Milkis at MLGs.
Smix fighting!
Lol I appreciate the love ;; but Rachel and Anna are amazing and should definitely not be replaced (not to mention awesome personalities as well)! And Milkis is translating bonjwa ~_~
Yeah, they're great, and Milkis is fine but you're the best. Susie was excellent too.
I love the pictures, they captured some things that aren't often seen on the pro scene like the seriousness with which casters go about preparing for a cast. Apollo, wheat, doa and even catzpajamas were all focussing really intensely on the job at hand in their pics.
Omg pressure to update the IEM and MLG photos now.
On October 20 2011 06:50 tofucake wrote: YOU ARE SUCH A TEASE
Great pics though
Haha cuz it's a lot of work going through all the photos!!
On October 20 2011 06:55 iNcontroL wrote: you are the best at what you do z o m g
<3!
On October 20 2011 06:57 d3_crescentia wrote: we never had a chance to play go =[
I'm so sorry. Maybe providence?
On October 20 2011 07:03 shindigs wrote: Those booths gave pretty awesome lighting, hopefully they find a way to remove those bars in the window that sometimes obstruct the players.
Yup I hope so too it makes it really hard to photograph ;_;
On October 20 2011 07:06 thedz wrote: Awesome pics! Now you need to take some at Blizzcon. Right? RIGHT?
Lol I don't have a pass for Blizzcon T_T;;
On October 20 2011 07:08 Smix wrote: Omg you have no idea how long I was waiting for you to upload your picsssss :D So freaking amazing as always ahhhh Still so sad I didn't get to see you at IPL T___T I hope you're feeling better though ~ so much traveling recently !!
Yeah I'm still coughing now but at least I can get back to work. After MLG I was so sick I wanted to die =_=;;
On October 20 2011 07:16 Hot_Bid wrote: Spotlighted!
Nice pictures.
Woot why thank you. I really am proud of my rifle shooting skills.
On October 20 2011 08:00 EdSlyB wrote: Great pictures! Thanks for sharing Select's and Strelok's are my favorites.
Select's a cutie :3
On October 20 2011 08:16 cvlsfts wrote: Wow nice pictures! The lighting's perfect in every picture. @____@ What camera do you use?
I use a Canon 1ds Mark3
On October 20 2011 08:59 turdburgler wrote: im disapointed by the lack of photobombing
hotbid has been out of shape recently
The way things were setup it's hard for him to photobomb i think, plus I'm super ninja. :D
On October 20 2011 09:23 UnKooL wrote: Damn I think FXOInori and DeApollo are the most handsome people in SC2. Inori looks like Heechul from Super Junior.
Yeah Inori's cute Why does FXO have so many cute people? :O
Wow really nice pics again as expected! Can't wait to see the iem and mlg ones. Now I know what painuser was talking about when he said the main screens could have been bigger. Holy cow those are tiny screens and I can't see anything going on in any of the pics showing the main screens.
I think it was a mistake to have 2 first person cam view screens, because in theory it sounds good, but then you end up with 3 tiny screens that you can't see anything on. It's not worth the lost screen real estate to fit them in. Just have 1 baller main screen like last gsl finals had. That was the most amazing main screen I've seen in e-sports so far.
Solid stuff! Can't wait for the updates to appear. Also wondering if you're planning on doing a self picture. Always interesting to see the face behind the camera Edit: uhh I mean a self picture at an event...
On October 20 2011 10:00 Alex.IGN wrote: These are awesome! Thanks for coming to IPL 3 and for posting these!
Thanks for approving my press pass at the very last minute! :D
On October 20 2011 10:21 Pantagruel wrote: Really liked the photos. Especially liked the photo of the entire venue which really looked phenomenal.
Yeahh was really nice!
On October 20 2011 10:24 Canucklehead wrote: Why really nice pics again as expected! Can't wait to see the iem and mlg ones. Now I know what painuser was talking about when he said the main screens could have been bigger. Holy cow those are tiny screens and I can't see anything going on in any of the pics showing the main screens.
I think it was a mistake to have 2 first person cam view screens, because in theory it sounds good, but then you end up with 3 tiny screens that you can't see anything on. It's not worth the lost screen real estate to fit them in. Just have 1 baller main screen like last gsl finals had. That was the most amazing main screen I've seen in e-sports so far.
Yeah if you don't it in the front it's hard to see anything at all especially for people like me with bad eyesight T_T
On October 20 2011 10:34 CrucialSC wrote: Solid stuff! Can't wait for the updates to appear. Also wondering if you're planning on doing a self picture. Always interesting to see the face behind the camera Edit: uhh I mean a self picture at an event...
Haha I have one by tgun from Anaheim but not this time since he wasn't there ;;;
Few questions regarding the lighting - Are these handheld or tripod shots? Did you use IS lenses? What was the exposure time on things like the booth picture? What ISO were you shooting at?
I had a really hard time with the lighting at the main stage. So many different light sources and the booth lights caused a lot of shadow and highlight problems. I ended up having to shoot at ISO 1600 handheld with 1/8s or lower (IS saved me there) for a lot of my shots and the noise caused me some issues. A bigger problem was I didn't have the focal range (17-55) to actually get good composition for player shots in the booth so having to crop so much amplified my problems.
Came in here expecting some standard pictures and was blown away and how good they were. Very nice job and thank you very much. These put me right there at the event.
Wow, very nice. Thanks for sharing. Can't help but notice that in Korean stages, the player booth is right in the middle of the stage, while in foreign event the casters are. I wish they put more emphasis on the players. :-/
On October 20 2011 10:47 R1CH wrote: Few questions regarding the lighting - Are these handheld or tripod shots? Did you use IS lenses? What was the exposure time on things like the booth picture? What ISO were you shooting at?
I had a really hard time with the lighting at the main stage. So many different light sources and the booth lights caused a lot of shadow and highlight problems. I ended up having to shoot at ISO 1600 handheld with 1/8s or lower (IS saved me there) for a lot of my shots and the noise caused me some issues. A bigger problem was I didn't have the focal range (17-55) to actually get good composition for player shots in the booth so having to crop so much amplified my problems.
Looking forward to the IEM and MLG pics!
These are all handheld. I absolutely hate having anything other than my lens attached to my camera (straps included) because I feel like it just hinders my movements -_-;;;
I used the 70-200 2.8L mostly no IS. For events I generally shoot on Aperture Priority so I don't really know. Probably generally around 1/40~1/100 or so for ISO 3200. You should definitely get a long lens ;o
On October 20 2011 11:35 Fzero wrote: You are so awesome, I definitely saw you like 20x at Orlando and failed to say anything 'cuz I'm shy. Keep up the good work!! :D
Feel free to say hi next time I don't bite really @_@
On October 20 2011 11:55 .DrK wrote: damn inori is one sexy beast. great photos!
I know rightttt
On October 20 2011 12:55 Waxangel wrote: I hope inori keeps doing well just so we can use that picture more often :D
Hahaha :D :D
On October 20 2011 13:13 sluggaslamoo wrote: You forgot to name Ret!
On October 20 2011 14:11 Milkis wrote: only if you could have come to universal with us... imagine the photo opportunity
I'm sad too. Koreans at universal with pictures taken by jingna?!! Such a shame, could have snapped some great mkp pics!
I think it'd be pretty sad if the purpose of me going to an amusement park is solely to take photos for someone else, I'd probably rather just have fun if I were travelling ;; but anyway I was sick so I couldn't go ^^;
On October 20 2011 14:39 aznagent wrote: Nice :D Good quality and catch players in good moments ^^
One suggestion, could you put all pictures from each event in a spoiler, so we don't have to scroll through IPL pics to see MLG etc?
Looking forward to more uploads
I would when the other updates are here ^^
On October 20 2011 15:23 JustPassingBy wrote: Wow, very nice. Thanks for sharing. Can't help but notice that in Korean stages, the player booth is right in the middle of the stage, while in foreign event the casters are. I wish they put more emphasis on the players. :-/
Um afaik for gomstudio player booths are on the sides the last time I was there. @_@;;
Not really. If the lighting is clean/single colour usually the colour noise isn't too bad. I've shot some concerts those get really tricky if you go too high so I usually try to stay in the 1600 range. Then again some cameras just have better sensors so you can push it a little bit more and get away with it so ^^;
On October 20 2011 14:11 Milkis wrote: only if you could have come to universal with us... imagine the photo opportunity
I'm sad too. Koreans at universal with pictures taken by jingna?!! Such a shame, could have snapped some great mkp pics!
I think it'd be pretty sad if the purpose of me going to an amusement park is solely to take photos for someone else, I'd probably rather just have fun if I were travelling ;; but anyway I was sick so I couldn't go ^^;
Haha, true true, but I didn't mean taking pics of them as like a job, but as like taking pics like you would if you were on vacation. Kind of like how milkis was just taking random camera phone pics.
On October 20 2011 15:36 zemotion wrote: Not really. If the lighting is clean/single colour usually the colour noise isn't too bad. I've shot some concerts those get really tricky if you go too high so I usually try to stay in the 1600 range. Then again some cameras just have better sensors so you can push it a little bit more and get away with it so ^^;
I've done as high as 3200, though it means more work in post. But Lightroom 3's noise reduction algorithms are magical :D
On some experiments I did with the Nikon D700, 6400 was actually surprisingly usable for webish sizes (like maybe to 1280 wide) after some NR tweaking.
On October 20 2011 10:47 R1CH wrote: Few questions regarding the lighting - Are these handheld or tripod shots? Did you use IS lenses? What was the exposure time on things like the booth picture? What ISO were you shooting at?
I had a really hard time with the lighting at the main stage. So many different light sources and the booth lights caused a lot of shadow and highlight problems. I ended up having to shoot at ISO 1600 handheld with 1/8s or lower (IS saved me there) for a lot of my shots and the noise caused me some issues. A bigger problem was I didn't have the focal range (17-55) to actually get good composition for player shots in the booth so having to crop so much amplified my problems.
Looking forward to the IEM and MLG pics!
These are all handheld. I absolutely hate having anything other than my lens attached to my camera (straps included) because I feel like it just hinders my movements -_-;;;
I used the 70-200 2.8L mostly no IS. For events I generally shoot on Aperture Priority so I don't really know. Probably generally around 1/40~1/100 or so for ISO 3200. You should definitely get a long lens ;o
I dunno how IPL lighting compared, but at MLGs, I've tended to use a 28-70 2.8 for the main stage and side stages (Stations A and B), the 70-200 2.8 for players in booths and zooms on the main stage, and a 50 1.4 for when I can sneak past security to take a shot of a player in a booth. The 50 1.4 was actually really good at the A and B stations too, especially since from the side, the player isn't affected by the narrow dof too much.
Plush red seats are so pretty~! Thanks for the shot! I am keeping this and posting in on my facebook! I will upload some IPL photos as soon as I get it approved. [Guy closest to the camera]
I must say now after MLG that IPL3 was more enjoyable event than MLG orlando. Maybe the most enjoyable event so far. Or maybe its just nostalgia after seeing these pretty pictures from the great event... either way, good job!
On October 20 2011 10:34 CrucialSC wrote: Solid stuff! Can't wait for the updates to appear. Also wondering if you're planning on doing a self picture. Always interesting to see the face behind the camera Edit: uhh I mean a self picture at an event...
Haha I have one by tgun from Anaheim but not this time since he wasn't there ;;;
thats my bro and i (on the right) giving the standing ovation for Stephano and Kiwi's game 2 Great event! Wish there were some more people there though..
On October 20 2011 10:34 CrucialSC wrote: Solid stuff! Can't wait for the updates to appear. Also wondering if you're planning on doing a self picture. Always interesting to see the face behind the camera Edit: uhh I mean a self picture at an event...
Haha I have one by tgun from Anaheim but not this time since he wasn't there ;;;
The IEM photos are good, and understandably scarce, but not a single shot of dignitas Killer? A seemingly up and coming latin american progamer deserves a little bit of attention, you know.
On October 21 2011 10:59 Shinespark wrote: The IEM photos are good, and understandably scarce, but not a single shot of dignitas Killer? A seemingly up and coming latin american progamer deserves a little bit of attention, you know.
On October 21 2011 10:59 Shinespark wrote: The IEM photos are good, and understandably scarce, but not a single shot of dignitas Killer? A seemingly up and coming latin american progamer deserves a little bit of attention, you know.
Wow these photos are amazing, people at TL are always so good at what they do :o
The viOlet one is so cute haha, and the emperor! Makes me wish Nada would have been there.
Also smix is so prettyfull ♥v♥ generally the crew was just amazing and actually had me old BW elitist jerk pumped for SC2, good job you all, consider my hat tipped!
On October 24 2011 11:41 Shurayuki wrote: Wow these photos are amazing, people at TL are always so good at what they do :o
The viOlet one is so cute haha, and the emperor! Makes me wish Nada would have been there.
Also smix is so prettyfull ♥v♥ generally the crew was just amazing and actually had me old BW elitist jerk pumped for SC2, good job you all, consider my hat tipped!
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