Two weeks ago, I participated in the DC Cosplay Photo Shoots Group meet up at Pierce Mill Park in DC. The theme for this cosplay meet up was horror; however, the meet up was in the middle of the day on a bright sunshiny day. Even though the sky was not conducive to getting those dark, creepy shots; however, the cosplayers were great and I made the location work for me to get the shots. For this shoot, I was using a Cannon 70D with an 18-200 mm lens, and a 430EX II speedlight mounted on a painters poll triggered with a Young Nu radio trigger. (Thank you to my husband who acted as my voice activated light stand) I did not use an umbrella, because I wanted hard, harsh light to get that creepy horror look. Because it was such a bright day, was using ISO 100, and stopped down my aperture to F10, used varied my shutter speed based on the amount of light, and had my flash in high-speed sync mode. I did vary my flash power, but was mostly ran it a...
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