Shooting The Andersonville National Historic Site

Alowisney

Alowisney

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This Saturday, March 12th, my wife and I have organized a photo walk at the Andersonville National Historic Site. We planned this weekend a few months ago and we got lucky because this will be a Living History Weekend complete with re-enactments and candle lantern tours of the cemetery.

I'm looking for advice on how you'd go about shooting it. I grew up five miles from there and have been to the site many times over the years. I photographed a lot of the site several years ago but have never shot a re-enactment or anything like that. I'd like to focus on shooting it in a journalistic style, emphasizing the people more than the place itself.

Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated; especially about the candle lantern tour. I'm thinking that I'd use my GSN for the candle lantern tour since it's got the fastest lens I have and it's got pretty quick handling.

If this thread is in the wrong place, I apologize!
 
I think you're right about the GSN for night, stick your prefered high ISO in it. Fuji Superia 800 perhaps?

For the daytime walkabout, I'd suggest the Yashica TLR. The square format, being unusual anymore, will emphasize the "olden days" effect. I'd suggest either slow Ilford (Pan-F or FP4+) if you develop your own or Kodak Ektar 100 if you want color. Take advantage of your hyper-focal settings so that you can shoot quickly when you're in good light. If it has an action finder on it (I don't know about the LM) it's your friend in this kind of shooting.

Good light!

William
 
I'll be shooting with the TLR for a bit that day. I'll be shooting Ilford HP5 Plus 400 in it. I've got some Ektar loaded in the GSN now and I'll be finishing it off in the morning of the walk. I'll be shooting some Plus-X in my Fed-2 and GSN as well during the day.

I'll pick up some Superia 800. I was thinking about buying some Kodak 800 but it looks to not be as good as the Fuji from what I'm reading.
 
I've got to take my brother to the VA hospital early Sat. AM, but I think I will try to be down there by lunch time. I'll be the white haired guy with a Contax G2 and a Fuji GA645ZI, and my better half along, of course. I'll try to locate you.
 
Excellent! I look forward to meeting you! We should have about ten people at times. People will be kind of drifting in and out of our group. Here's a link to the Facebook event we started if you want to take a look.
 
Good advice already, I wont butt in. Good luck, try and post some pictures afterward. I was a Civil War reenactor and would be particularly interested to see.
 
wgerrard said:
I'm sure you will, but do take a second to consider what happened at Andersonville.
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Oh, definitely. When you're there the enormity of what happened there hits you. The rows and rows of graves that are right next to each other chokes me up every time.
 
My mother's family is from the area around Andersonville since well before the Civil War. My mother has some diaries and documents from the family back during the war. It was a horrible time in our history on both sides.
 
No reason to fight the war all over again.That said, I have no tolerance for the common attempts to obscure the south's culpability with diversions about battlefield glory and valor. The southern states did something no state has a right to do -- leave the union -- to ensure the maintenance and growth of an evil and despicable social system, and of a backward-looking economic system, obsessed with the romance of Jefferson's slavery-based agrarian fantasies. They valued the power to enslave more than democracy, more than economic progress. For that, they started a war that killed 600,000 people.
 
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