Sunflowers a DC Cosplay Event
On August 31 st , I attended the D.C. Cosplay Photo Shoots ’ meet-up held at Lescher’s Poultry Farm Sunflower Fields. We shot here last year but at the end of the season when the sunflowers were well past peak bloom. This year, we managed to hit peak bloom; however, we had about 60-75 minutes to shoot because of a major storm with lighting rolling in. So, I had to shoot very quickly to be able to work with a variety of people as well as be aware of the weather. For this session I used: Canon R6 1 Speed light Trigger 1 Light stands 1 small bounce umbrella 24 - 105mm lens ¼ cut CTO Gel Camera Settings: For this shoot, I ended up using ISO 200 and ISO 250. I think I might have bumped the ISO adjustment at some point, as ISO 250 is an odd ISO. I used an aperture of F4, which allows me to blur the background but still allows you to see it is a sunflower field. My shutter speed varied from 1/80s to 1/250s, with the most common shutter speed being 1/250s. My focal
