This year I did a two portrait shoots using the cherry blossoms as a backdrop. I did one shoot in the morning at the tidal basin and the other in the afternoon at a local park. There were not as many cherry blossoms overall this year due to frost and cold temperatures near the peak bloom period. I went down to the tidal basin early in the morning to meet LaReine Rousse Cosplay who was cosplaying Mikumo. I did her shoot using my Canon 70D an 18 -200mm lens, a 430 EX-RT III flash mounted on my camera, and a bounce attachment for the flash. It was a densely clouded early in the morning however; the clouds did break up later in the morning resulting in a sunny day. We started near the Jefferson Memorial, worked our way around the tidal basin, and ended across the street in the offshoot of the main tidal basin area. The challenge of shooting portraits at the tidal basin is being able to get clean pictures (limited to no distractio...
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