At the beginning of November I shot with the DC Cosplayer and Photographers meet-up group at the National Portrait Gallery in DC. The National Portrait Gallery has a beautiful interior, especially the third floor which has several interesting little nooks. The other nice thing is the Portrait Gallery does allow flash photography in most areas, the only limitation for this shoot was photographers could not use light stands or tripods. This limitation was not an issue, since that is the same limitation I work with at most conventions. Hopefully, we will get to shoot there again because I know I missed some interesting areas. For the Portrait Gallery shoot, I was limited to handheld equipment only and I did not have an assistant to hold things. I was shooting with my Canon 70D, with an 18 -200mm lens, a 450 EX II flash, and LumiQuest 80/20 flash modifier . The modifier is called an 80/20 which when the flash is pointed straight up will bounce either 80 ...
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