On July 23 rd , winter was supposed to be coming, however it was extremely hot outside; thankfully I was inside the NationalBuilding Museum for a DC Cosplay meet up. The theme for this meet up was the Game of Thrones since the season recently started. The National Building Museum is an excellent location for the theme due to large Corinthian columns inside the museum and its overall classical architecture. The other item that made this shoot interesting was the fact; we had access to the Hive exhibit an hour before it opened to the public. The Hive is part of the museums summer art display, and is a bunch of large cardboard tubes painted silver and pink stacked on top of each other. While the hive was interesting, I did not feel it added to the theme and preferred to use the museum architecture for the backgrounds of the photos. For this shoot, I used my Canon 70D, my trusty 18 -200mm lens, a 430 EX –IIIRT speed light, with a lumapro bounce. The mus...
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