Photography

The Eurofurence Photography department takes care of all official con photography that is directly related to the attendees:

• The fursuit photo shoot
• The fursuit group photo
• The regular group photo
• Any requested event documentation
• New: The media catalogue

Historically, the Daily-EF has their own photographers as well as several department internal photography that might be required. Our responsibilities are directly connected with the convention attendees and involve post-processing of the images we take after EF is over. Thus - by definition - pictures that are needed during the convention are not part of our responsibilities.

Our department consists of photographers and assistants.

The photographers:

• Share some hours per day on the photo shoot location, using rented equipment.
• Take turns covering various events for the media catalogue using their own camera (i.e. a halfway decent DSLR with RAW images is a must-have)

The assistants:

• Help some hours per day on the photo shoot location. This involves handling props, fursuiters and/or operating the registration system computer on location. There will be two assistants in parallel.
• If needed, help the photographers at other locations by holding up props, directing people or carrying equipment.

Both duties involve keeping to a schedule that will be discussed and up for fine tuning within the team as soon as the EF timetable is available, so usually nobody has to miss out on "must go" events.

The fursuit photo shoot might be amongst the more stressful tasks that EF has to offer, but the chance to meet lots of suiters up close and personal makes for a good reward. Also, we try to minimize the hours per day by using enough people to divide the workload.

If you are interested in helping out, contact Atkelar or ShortyDragon, using photo@eurofurence.org before the convention.

There are a few prerequisites for helping:

We might need a few helping hands during setup and tear down of the photo shoot location and the group photo spot that are able to carry some delicate equipment when directed to do so.

For actual team members...

...the photographers need to:

• Have some studio experience (preferably also with fursuiters as subjects)
• Have experience with fursuiters (either as spotters or themselves)
• Be good at coming up with some funny ideas for poses
• Be on time

...the assistants need to:

• Have experience with fursuiters (either as spotters or themselves)
• Preferably be good at coming up with some funny ideas for poses to help the photographer and suiter in case of a block
• Be on time