As I was whining about on here yesterday, due to prevailing conditions I was barely able to do anything yesterday, which is too bad for me as July 4th is one of the few times the Bay Area really goes in on flag imagery.
But I spent a little time in SF and came away not totally empty handed.
The shadows on this one are wild. Fairly sure it's just a function of abundant light being reflected off of adjacent buildings, but I really did a double take when I opened that one up in DXO.
The seasonal theming here was, shall we say, low-effort. I'm not sure whether the flags on the lower left demonstrate that some flags were printed differently or whether it's just that light was falling more strongly on some of them.
In this instance, one person is wearing a star pattern shirt, and for some reason the other person was dressed as a whole-ass redcoat??
Shooting flash with the Ricoh and ye olde nikon SB-26 worked well. With filtration on the flash, there's about a 3-stop offset, which is pretty substantial. But the flash's auto thyristor mode worked quite reliably. However, I still need a more powerful flash to provide more flexibility and better recycle times.