Otaku Fest 2008

After ARCHcon2007, here comes another anime convention which is going to be held in Cebu. I would like to note everyone that this is still the 2nd organization who decided to organize an anime event here in Cebu, and is currently on their first year.

Honestly, I’ve never been to an anime convention since it’s quite rare to have such an event here. Although I’ve heard that ARCHcon started last 2004 but I’ve only heard about them around late October 2007 while they were advertising for their latest anime convention held last November 18, 2007 at the old Sacred Heart School Jesuit Building. I let the opportunity pass since it’s more like a hobbies convention rather than a convention solely for anime.

Now, here comes Otaku Fest organized by an anime org from UP Cebu. I immediately got interested because of their Photography competition. When I entered the Sinulog Photo Contest, I realized that I’m still bad with portraits and human interest. So, I thought about it and realized that maybe I should start practicing here. Doesn’t exercising our weakness overcomes our insecurities? Right, and this time, I actually had the courage to just go on and just wanna take lot’s of pictures without worrying about how the photo may look like and other stuff.

There’s a little problem though, it’s going to be held on a Saturday which my TV Arts laboratory class falls in the morning while my Layouting class falls at 3pm. So basically, I only have a 3 hour break if I don’t wanna miss my classes. Of course, it’s easy to just ditch the class and go to the convention but it seems like it’s going to be harder than I thought since last Saturday, I didn’t go to my morning class since we were filming a short film for the school and we’re going to continue by next Saturday. I’m not even sure if we can actually finish it by that time. And yeah, I mentioned that we’re going to continue it by next Saturday so that would mean that I won’t be able to attend my morning classes again! So by February 9, I no longer have the excuse to be absent. But I really really want to attend the event, I wanna take pictures and more pictures. That’s the only thing that occupies my mind right now.

Here are the mechanics by the way:

Photography:

1.)The competition is open to all interested individuals. Registration is at the venue itself.
2.)Photographs taken must be from the event itself, of any theme (i.e. Portrait, Human Interest, etc)
3.)Photographs are to be submitted on or before 2:30 PM of February 9. 5r size*
4.)Photographers may submit a maximum of 3 entries.
5.)Criteria for judging are:
50% content
50% composition

Now, another problem is, if I were to enter the competition then I’d have to hurry and print the photos before 2:30pm, that’s just ridiculous (I’m sorry if anyone’s offended by this), so estimating that the convention will open at 10pm (as what I’ve read from the previous posts at Istorya.net), I only have roughly 4 hours and 30 minutes to take pictures and have them printed, and not to mention that break weren’t even counted. But anyway, I’m not looking forward for the contest anyway, I just wanna take pics and that’s just it. If it’s allowed to take pics without joining the contest and I’m in!

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