Old Fort Harrod

Speaking of John Curry... .

Here are some pics he had me take this summer at the Fort Harrod State Park Settlement and Raid event he organized this summer. The dates for this year's event have just been announced: June 18 and 19, 2011 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. For more information, go to www.oldfortharrod.org/.

You'll see these pics and many more used in upcoming state and regional advertising to publicize the event.

In case you photo buffs are curious:

•  The top images of multiple natives...I used a slew of slaved Nikon flashes to fill in shadows that were everywhere. I just thought the image would look much better with even lighting throughout.
• The pipe-smoking pioneer woman...the natural light is coming from the right...she is shaded by an awning with the flag slightly backlight. I used spot metering in the trusty Nikon D3 to nail the exposure.
• The Shawnee squatting in a tree is all natural lighting...that's actually early morning light bouncing off the fort walls that's creating the wonderful light. I used my unerring Sekonic L-758 DR in incident mode to determine the exposure, which was so tricky that I didn't trust the Nikon D3 in spot meter mode.
• The tomahawk-throwing woodsman...it took several runs to determine that an exposure of F5/shutter speed 500 @ asa200 was spot-on.
• The Colonial soldier with musket...easy. Just depress the shutter release button halfway to lock the focus on the gun's lock, recompose, then finish depressing the shutter release button...perfect.

(All photos copyright John Bramel)