Doug Kerr
Well-known member
In our town, Weatherford Texas (about 25 miles west of Fort Worth, in traditional quarter-horse and cutting horse raising territory), each December the local historical society conducts a tour of several historic homes in the area, all of which have been exquisitely decorated for the Christmas season by the owners.
Volunteer docents are stationed in each room to acquaint the visitors with the special features of the room, the history of the artifacts, and so forth.
This year Carla and I volunteered as docents. The home to which we were assigned was built in 1903.
We had wanted to do serious studio shots of ourselves in our festive garb before we set out, but various schedule complications interfered, so I just did a grab shot as we were almost out the door.
Douglas A Kerr: Carla and Doug Kerr as Docents, 2009
I put the EOS 40D on my favorite tripod and mounted the Speedlite 580EX II. The camera was fired with my Zap Shot radio release (in case you wondered what I was doing with my left hand).
The studio background was not up (our studio is a multi-purpose room, to say the least), so we just "went to the piano".
The lighting was a wholly-unplanned mélange of flash illumination with ambient illumination from various CFL sources, corrected in-camera under AWB (the JPEG output being taken). Ambient exposure was in P mode, and flash exposure was by E-TTL II evaluative, with all defaults in place. It was almost a demonstration of all the things we hear one should never do.
My formal kilt outfit was a gift from Carla a few years ago - she commissioned it from a tailor in Glasgow. The tartan is for my clan, Kerr.
Volunteer docents are stationed in each room to acquaint the visitors with the special features of the room, the history of the artifacts, and so forth.
This year Carla and I volunteered as docents. The home to which we were assigned was built in 1903.
We had wanted to do serious studio shots of ourselves in our festive garb before we set out, but various schedule complications interfered, so I just did a grab shot as we were almost out the door.
Douglas A Kerr: Carla and Doug Kerr as Docents, 2009
I put the EOS 40D on my favorite tripod and mounted the Speedlite 580EX II. The camera was fired with my Zap Shot radio release (in case you wondered what I was doing with my left hand).
The studio background was not up (our studio is a multi-purpose room, to say the least), so we just "went to the piano".
The lighting was a wholly-unplanned mélange of flash illumination with ambient illumination from various CFL sources, corrected in-camera under AWB (the JPEG output being taken). Ambient exposure was in P mode, and flash exposure was by E-TTL II evaluative, with all defaults in place. It was almost a demonstration of all the things we hear one should never do.
My formal kilt outfit was a gift from Carla a few years ago - she commissioned it from a tailor in Glasgow. The tartan is for my clan, Kerr.
