July Fourth at the Battlefield

I had the opportunity yesterday to photograph at the citizenship ceremony held every year on July 4th at Saratoga National Historical Park in my capacity as a park volunteer. In doing so, the resulting photos belong to the National Park Service.

Post processing from RAW files, which I always do anyway, is a necessity in conditions like this in order to lower highlights and raise shadows. I used spot metering and bracketed three exposures to get an optimal file to work with. 

Most of the photos benefitted from cropping to a 4:3 aspect ratio. Here are some of the results, all with the Canon EOS R6 and RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.

72mm, f/4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 100

93mm, f/4, 1/750 sec., ISO 200

61mm, f/4, 1/3000 sec., ISO 200

105mm, f/4, 1/750 sec., ISO 200

105mm, f/4, 1/250 sec., ISO 200

105mm, f/4, 1/1000 sec., ISO 200

24mm, f/4, 1/6000 sec., ISO 200