While looking back through my Lightroom catalog, I stumbled across some pictures of a few World War II reenactments from 2009 and 2010. These were hosted at the West Overton Village, which is a historic site in southwest Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, they are no longer held there.
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Polar Bears in the water
Some more portraits
9 month portraits. 2 light setup, 1 to blow out the background and 1 in a 33″ umbrella for main. I’m realizing now how much I need a 3rd light.
5 minute Portraits
While at a family function this past weekend, I was asked to take a few quick pictures. Quick was the key word because the girls were much more interested in playing than smiling nicely for a picture. Knowing this, I planned ahead on keeping it simple. I put my 35mm on the X-T1 and set the aperture to f/4 to keep the balance of the light coming through the window, shutter speed to 1/125 and ISO to 400. For my main light I had a speedlight attached to my camera via a TTL cable and had an Fstoppers Flash Disc on the flash. I normally like to use flash in manual mode, but I didn’t have the time to dial it in right. TTL came through. In the first picture, I wanted more directional light so I held the flash to camera left, which was close to the same axis of light coming in from the window. Once I had multiple subjects in the frame, I held the flash to camera right to try and balance the light from the window (left) to give a more even lighting situation. Given this was setup in two minutes and I shot the pictures in another 3, I’m happy with the results.