Tips for GDC Speakers

Some tips for future GDC speakers, panelists, and presenters (to make my life as a photographer much easier, and my photographs of you much better):

1. Don't hide behind your podium.

1.a. Panelists: Don't hide behind your microphone/open laptop.

2. Don't stand there with your hands in your pockets.

2.a. Do something *interesting* with your hands while you speak.

3. Don't touch your face while you're talking. This includes no thumb-sucking (I deleted that picture) and rubbing your nose (I might still have that one).

4. Panelists: Don't look bored while another panelist is speaking.

5. Don't call out the photographer, referring to him (or her) in the third person while he/she is (a) still in the middle of the audience, and (b) still in a position to take further pictures and/or ratchet the flash up to new, unseen levels of power.

5.a. If you *do* call out the photographer, don't then demonstrate a pose/facial expression you *don't* like to be photographed in. At least, not while the photographer is still armed has his camera ready.

-David