On June 9th, I attended the D.C. Cosplay Photo Shoots ’ meet-up held at Skate N’ Fun Zone in Manassas, VA. This was an interesting place to hold a photo meet up and challenged both cosplayers and photographers. The location was very colorful and very open due to the skate rink. I think this was challenging location due to colors, needing the right cosplay to make it truly work, and possibly needing to be able to roller skate some. I did take some good photos, but I wouldn’t say this was my best work. For this session I used: Canon R6 1 Speed light Trigger 1 Light stands 24 - 105mm lens Gels Assistant Camera Settings: For this shoot I used a range of ISOs from ISO 100 to ISO2000 when I was in the laser tag section. Though in general my ISO stayed around ISO 400 to balance ambient and flash. I kept my aperture wide open at F4 or F4.5 to blur backgrounds, as the backgrounds could be very distracting. While my shutter speed ra...
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