Billy The Kid Reenactment

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Yesterday I attended a Billy the Kid reenactment in San Elizario, Texas. One thing I like about these kinds of shows is that I can move around and look for photographic opportunities other than what I came to shoot.

Spectators, props, setting, close-ups of every kind, all offer pictures to the alert photographer.

That is how I came by this picture. I looked in this actor's direction and instantly liked what I saw. I was shooting with the Nikkor 18-200mm vr attached to my Nikon D5000. The huge zoom let me compose the picture very quickly and I snapped the picture before she moved. That is key for this kind of photography. You have to be able to do a  very quick composition before the situation changes.

I was shooting aperture priority set to f5.6, ISO was at 400 and so was the shutter speed. 1/400th.

The lady in the picture was a actress, part of the "Six guns and shady ladies" reenactment group.

They put on a good show, all the while they were sweltering in 103F "warmth". Hey, it was a dry heat.

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