FBurgNews » Photography.Local http://www.fburgnews.com Fredericksburg's Community News Blog Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:42:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Womanless Beauty Pageant http://blog.mikemorones.com/2010/07/25/womanless-beauty-pageant/ http://blog.mikemorones.com/2010/07/25/womanless-beauty-pageant/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:06:50 +0000 Mike http://blog.mikemorones.com/?p=678 I went to the Orange County Fair the other day to shoot a feature on the annual womanless beauty pageant. Rednecks country boys in drag, essentially. It was pretty funny, the guys were good sports but the light was terrible. And because it was 1000 degrees with 110% humidity I wanted to travel light, so I just slung two cameras with two zooms over my shoulders and was off. Stupidly, I left the strobe in the car and instead of going to get it, I tried to make do with the D300′s ISO capability. It wasn’t too bad, if you don’t mind a little digital noise.

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Colonial Forge rising senior Tim Scott, holding a box of his recruitment letters, photographed at his home in Stafford, VA, on July 21, 2010 (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star)

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