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Photographing Ivie @ Longs Park

It’s a typical February morning. Cold, 30 degrees and dreary. The sun will not be out at all this weekend. So why not have a photo shoot! I settled on Longs Park in Lancaster for today’s back drop. It’s clean, quiet, and has some nice features for photos. This will be the first shoot I exclusively shoot using an off camera flash. I love the look of the photos with the flash. The fact that the pictures look different than most natural light shooters is a bonus. Ivie toughed it out today. She was shivering before I took the first shot, yet somehow made it through 5 wardrobe changes. 

Elysha @Lancaster City

I'm here again shooting with Elysha. Our idea was to do a city shoot with holiday lights as a backdrop. Unfortunately we planned this last second and didn’t realize we were a few days early for the tree lighting. Either way, Lancaster is a beautiful historic city and we plan to have fun exploring it today. We are meeting up around golden hour and should go well into the night. It’s freezing out but that’s not cooling off our enthusiasm. With it being Friday night in Lancaster there are plenty of shoppers and foot traffic in the city. Elysha and I are starting our shoot at central market and just leisurely finding spots around the city. 

As always for the shoot I will be using my Fuji x-t2. This is my first time shooting with the Fuji x-t2 at night. It’s a natural light shoot. I definitely learned some things about my camera during this shoot. I’ll be using the fujinon 50mm f2 and 16mm f1.4 lenses.