If you're going to the derby then you need you need the right attire and for these ladies that meant a wide brimmed hat.
I came up with the idea to do this portrait series just yesterday afternoon while going over my assignments. My photo supervisor thought that it could be a fun little assignment to get a picture for our running photo column and I expanded upon that idea to set up a little studio inside the McHenry Township Senior Center and photograph all the ladies with their hats.
The Kentucky Derby is today at 5PM EST so the senior center thought that they would have their own derby festivities as part of Older Americans Month. In addition to getting all dressed up and having lunch, they were treated to an afternoon of computerized thoroughbred racing. It was set up much like a video game but miles above anything that I've seen. The races were projected onto a large screen in the center of the room as the announcer would provide participants with the horses names, odds, and the oddsmaker's notes before the start of each race. At the conclusion of each race the winners received raffle tickets for prizes.
The ladies, and a few gentleman, all enjoyed themselves at the inaugural event.
I set up a white sheet in the corner of the ballroom and blew out the background by a stop and a half with a speedlight on each side at quarter power and I made sure to put a gobo on each light to prevent spill onto my subjects. The main light was another speedlight at around 1/8th power with my beauty dish as the modifier. I also added a gridded speedlight at about half power to light some of their hats. I once again choose the Canon 5D to help capture more detail. All of the images were shot with a 70-200 at around f/4.5, 1/200 at 50 ISO.
Don't miss what is widely known as the fastest two minutes in sports this afternoon on ABC.
-JCE
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