Hello friends. I'd like to preface this by saying that I've taken a good ~50 photos that I'm pleased with, but being as that its midnight and I'm running off 4 hours of sleep within the last 3 days, I've only picked/resized/touched up ~13 of my favorites. The rest will be posted tomorrow!

Also, I've resized them to forum sizes, but I have large (4000x3000 or something) versions. If you for whatever reason want one, PM me!

Day #1 started where I promptly met up with wonkman, who generously allowed me to stay in his hotel room, and we proceeded to the registration area where we happened to come across EG. We exchanged pleasantries and I informed them that I'm only partially a stalker, but mostly was going to be following them for some Teamliquid pictures. They approved.

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After iNcontroL educated IdrA on the subject of candid photography, he managed himself in to my first proper photo of the day, which turned out to be one of my favorites.

Soon after, IdrA decided to look all angelic and shit.

Here is the man, Machine. He is looking quite devilish, indeed.

Tyler and Ret joined EG in line, and I snapped one of Tyler enjoying some sort of beverage. Somehow, being a photographer, I managed to cut in front of all of them when I went to register. :fuckyeah:

Here's Day[9] taking a clear interest in one of IdrAs 500 practice matches when the doors opened.

God damn I took a lot of pictures of IdrA. Anyway, it's a rare occasion when you can catch him showing a hint of emotion. This was taken after one of his many victories (maybe the finals.) If only I was allowed in the player area at this time, I could have gotten Machine without a monitor in front of his face.

Machine may only be spamming APM at this very moment, but he does so with great fervor.

I've been spotted, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu--

I sadly did not get many photos of HuK besides this one. I'd say that he is too small to find, or too wild to chase, but.. well actually, that's true. Anyway, here he is, sitting and staring at the projector to analyze the KiwiKaki vs IdrA match (I think).

This is not the face that I had imagined to be Kawaiirice, but so help me, it is. (he's so cute, etc etc)

The only other fnatic picture I got- Gretorp in the heat of battle.
edit: will brighten this up later, gotta sleep o.o

Now for some crowd shots. Here's QXC bunker rushing IdrA.

GG was called. I was hoping everyone would stand up and raise their hands, cheer and clap something crazy. They did everything except for standing up, and thus the photo was less exciting than I had hoped, but rest assured there was much excitement if you were there.

Pulled out my wide-angle lense and tried to get a shot of the entire crowd, from the wall and facing out. This may look like a lot, but it doesn't even do it justice. Behind the pillar, there are rows of people standing trying to get a glimpse of the action, no matter how awkward the angle.

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That's it for tonight, in regards to photos! If anyone was there and was wondering which photo-camera guy I was, first day I was wearing a button-up with a red shirt under it, and second day I was wearing a hoodie with a white/gold-ish sleeveless shirt with tattoos (the few times I took the hoodie off.)

I played in the tournament, as well. First draw was against root.CatZ (who I sadly have no pictures of) which I lost, and second game was against "cava". I lost that too

It was all in the name of good fun, though, and I had a great time.

A friend texted me and said that I was on camera briefly when playing, and that the MLG stream chat was talking about me because I wear a glove on my mouse-hand. I get joint pains and that undersized weightlifting glove helps tighten my hand and relieve pain somehow. Can't do that on my keyboard hand though because then I cant use hotkeys for shit. Anyway, my friend said a lot of people were talking about it. Maybe he's full of shit but I don't know :O

Sadistx

Zimbabwe5568 Posts

October 17 2010 05:25 GMT

Great pics as always man ^^
I've said it before and I'll say it again - you're basically the NeverGG of the DC area.

And I think we did fine as a group in the tournament - all DC nerds won at least 1 game and Rob almost made it to day 2 :D

Masamune

Canada3401 Posts

October 17 2010 05:27 GMT

Very nice pictures! 5/5 stars~!!

HuK is adorable.

Inc looks like a bodyguard.

a176

Canada6688 Posts

October 17 2010 05:46 GMT

last shot is great. any more wide angle shots?

Nokarot

United States1410 Posts

October 17 2010 05:49 GMT

On October 17 2010 14:46 a176 wrote:
last shot is great. any more wide angle shots?

I don't think so

I tried a number of crowd-shots at wide angle, but that last one is the only one that seemed to turn out. Being as that wide-angle lenses dont really zoom at all, I wasn't able to use them on players given that I was taking 90% of my photos behind the ropes and from far away, except for the few I took during practice games.

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

October 17 2010 05:57 GMT

The photo of HuK would have been awesome if they lighting were better.

5 Stars

cava

United States1035 Posts

October 17 2010 06:00 GMT

GG's man. I met and played you at the event!

Nokarot

United States1410 Posts

October 17 2010 06:18 GMT

On October 17 2010 14:57 Karliath wrote:
The photo of HuK would have been awesome if they lighting were better.

And with the magicks of photoshop, I attempt to rectify this for you, good sir. But yes, the lighting was give-or-take throughout the convention center. HuK was sitting in one of the darker areas at the time.

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version 2

On October 17 2010 15:00 cava wrote:
GG's man. I met and played you at the event!

GG! (grrr you eliminated me

)

edit: oh god i really should sleep, bye

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

October 17 2010 06:29 GMT

Cool pics as always Nokarot, love what you do and can't wait for all the others to be uploaded

GenesisX

Canada4267 Posts

October 17 2010 06:41 GMT

#10

Awesome photos!

Soulfire

United States237 Posts

October 17 2010 07:04 GMT

#11

Awesome photos, Nokarot. Greatly appreciated!

Surrealz

United States449 Posts

October 17 2010 07:18 GMT

#12

great pics, nice captions as well xD

x-Catalyst

United States921 Posts

October 17 2010 07:53 GMT

#13

Thanks for the great photos, can't wait for the rest!

s.a.y

Croatia3840 Posts

October 17 2010 08:36 GMT

#14

great shots

garbanzo

United States4046 Posts

October 17 2010 10:43 GMT

#15

Great photos man. I'm can live vicariously through these photos.

Just my luck, huge event in my neighborhood and I'm out of the country.

Oh well, can't wait to see the rest. Thanks!

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

October 17 2010 13:32 GMT

#16

great pics nokarot, i see myself twice ^^
dunno if you remember me but we walked over to get Dr Pepper on day1 during warmups

KillyKyll

United States267 Posts

October 17 2010 14:00 GMT

#17

Excellent pictures! I wish I was down there to see all that. It really is making me want to go to one of the MLGs, maybe next time they are in the east coast I'll actually go. I would suggest you go down to future MLG (and similar) events in the area in the future, even if you don't get a gaming ticket just to take some awesome pictures. Because this itself seems worth it to the community, and (hopefully) to yourself also.

Btw, what camera do you have? These make me want it!

Keep 'em coming

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

October 17 2010 15:24 GMT

#18

Awesome job.

Do you just live in the DC area or will you be traveling to other major lans?

Haemonculus

United States6980 Posts

October 17 2010 16:11 GMT

#19

On October 18 2010 00:24 Jibba wrote:
Awesome job.

Do you just live in the DC area or will you be traveling to other major lans?

He's a regular at our weekly nerd dinners, so I'm assuming he lives close by!

Anyway, awesome photos! You are pro with that camera. But I still dodge u all day gg no re son.