May 18 and May 19 were basically travel days. We arrived at Dulles airport around 1:20PM for a 5:20 PM flight. While I pre-paid for parking in the garage so I would have a spot, I didn’t pay for an actual reserved space, so we took about 20 minutes finding an open space that wasn’t labeled reserve. The check in process while smooth, was not up to what I would consider British Airway standard. We were in the business class line, since that was what we were flying, and the ticketing agent for that business class ended up opening up all lines and wrangling economy passengers. So, we were left hanging until someone noticed. They also didn’t have our pre-check information because the online form never asked for it, so we went through regular security. Though the regular security line was way shorter and faster than pre-check, it took us about 5-10 minutes. From there we went to go hang out in the British Airways lounge, which does...
On April 11 th , I did a cosplay session with Kawa to test a new graphic backdrop, in the style of an ornate white wall. Kawa chose Oscar from the Rose of Versailles for this shoot which complemented the backdrop due to its palace wall feel. For this session, I used: Photography Equipment Props/Miscellaneous Cannon R6 24-105 mm Lens Transmitter/Trigger 2 Westcott FJ400 Strobes 2 c-stands 2 Rectangular Soft boxes 1 Bell Reflector w/ barndoors & Grid 1 Backdrop stand 1 Graphic Backdrop Sandbags Clamps Spyder color checker Laptop Teather cable 2 Gold flower stands 5 Gold flower planters Spring flowers (daffodils & tulips) Styrofoam Tiny table Silver velvet fabric Chair Fake candles The set up My goal for this shoot was to see how the ornate white wall backdrop would photograph. I have a dark ornate wall backdrop that works well because of ho...