The Munchkin's Notebook

On March 26 th, I attended a DC CosplayPhotography meet, held at the Cloister in Maryland. T he Cloister is an old summer home based on several types of medieval architecture.  It was the perfect setting for the Disney Princess theme of the meet up.   This was a nice location because there were several different locations on the grounds from a spiral stone staircase, and outside stone garden, and a windmill.  This shoot did allow the photographers to use more than just handheld equipment.  At the shoot, I used a Cannon 70D with an 18 - 200mm lens, an external 600EX-RT, and Yognou radio triggers.  The flash was mounted on a light stand with a 32-inch umbrella shoot through umbrella.  The only standard camera setting I used was an ISO of 400 for all the photos, but all other settings I modified based on the light of the location.   I will discuss three of my favorite shots from this meet up. I considered this shot of Sara Cosplay...

I am still behind on the 52 week challenge, however, I have decided to just pick up with the current week and continue on from there. Eventually, I will go back to the weeks I missed. This week’s challenge was an artistic metal shoot.  Initially, I wanted to do something rusty and falling apart, like you would find in a junk yard.  However, I do not know of any good junk yards, so I started looking around the apartment and settled on the vintage typewriter from the 1950’s.  I focused on the metal type hammers.   To set up for this shoot was simple. I set the typewriter up on a white piece of mat board, and used a single flash mounted on a light stand with a boom arm so I could position it directly above the type hammers or angled to the of the type hammers.  On my camera, I used a radio trigger to trigger the flash and 60mm macro lens to focus on the hammers.  The camera settings were ISO 400 with an F22 aperture, a 1/250s shutter, and a flash power...