Reenactor Critique

[LoriAnn]

I'm not understanding your reply here? I don't know what photo you took of whom, the button situation I don't quite understand either?
Been up since 3:45 AM today!

Ah. Yes, I mentioned the photo in my opening post. A shot of a nice man in his uniform that I had to remove because he was being hassled online. He was the inspiration for the thread.

I hope you sleep well tonight!

 

[LoriAnn]

Well... was it his pants button?

Very funny!

No. It was the top button of his white shirt. *gasp!*

 

[LoriAnn]

New guys and Veterans alike "relax" a bit, too, and get caught by the camera.

I think that's what happened with me. I didn't mean to catch this guy at the wrong time. In fact, he stopped and smiled for me.

You'd think fellow reenactors would understand that particular scenario. I'd love to follow those two big mouths around for a weekend with my camera. Get a shot of them in uniform drinking Starbucks or checking their phone.

 

[LoriAnn]

Ah. A well known reenactment photographer has posted on Facebook about this problem (@Albert Sailhorst , you are friends with Tom I think...you may have seen it already.), and the post is on fire.

From now on, I will delete any negative comments made about my photo subjects. I hate censorship, but I hate bullying more.

If anyone here ends up in one of my photos/albums and wishes to not be included, by all means, let me know and I will take your photo down.

If you want to be up and online but are being harassed by someone, please let me know. We will work to remove comments and to have photos posted elsewhere taken down. It won't be a perfect system, but we won't make it easy for those jerks either.

 

[captaindrew]

Ah. A well known reenactment photographer has posted on Facebook about this problem (@Albert Sailhorst , you are friends with Tom I think...you may have seen it already.), and the post is on fire.

From now on, I will delete any negative comments made about my photo subjects. I hate censorship, but I hate bullying more.

If anyone here ends up in one of my photos/albums and wishes to not be included, by all means, let me know and I will take your photo down.

If you want to be up and online but are being harassed by someone, please let me know. We will work to remove comments and to have photos posted elsewhere taken down. It won't be a perfect system, but we won't make it easy for those jerks either.

Being new around here I may be asking a silly question, do you photograph many of the big events? Going to Gettysburg this year by any chance?

 

[LoriAnn]

Being new around here I may be asking a silly question, do you photograph many of the big events? Going to Gettysburg this year by any chance?

Oh, that's not a silly question at all.

I'm brand spankin' new behind the camera and still learning the basics. I've just started following our area reenactment/event schedule, and this past one (WW1) was my first.

I would love to photograph the Gettysburg event. I have this little fantasy of hopping into the car and taking off, camera and bags packed.

 

[Craig L Barry]

I don't know why people don't use more common sense. Robert Lee Hodge has always seemed to have had the right idea. Don't tell people what looks right, show them but shut up about it otherwise. For a little perspective in another area of the hobby, the Authentic Campaigner forum has a pretty hot thread going which is titled "Have We Gotten Soft?" The answers offered up so far seem to be "Yes."

The point is "attitude" trumps "the correct kit" (meaning the specific material culture) every time. And for those for whom interest in the hobby manifests itself in more concrete terms, there are the non-public events that cater to just that. It is more important to go out there and do your best to "get it right." You were right to shut down the nay-sayers on your own site.

 

[captaindrew]

Oh, that's not a silly question at all.

I'm brand spankin' new behind the camera and still learning the basics. I've just started following our area reenactment/event schedule, and this past one (WW1) was my first.

I would love to photograph the Gettysburg event. I have this little fantasy of hopping into the car and taking off, camera and bags packed.

Oh, I thought those were your pics from Shiloh. Good luck with it and enjoy and hop into the car and go

 

[LoriAnn]

Oh, I thought those were your pics from Shiloh. Good luck with it and enjoy and hop into the car and go

Thank you. I am tempted.

And I wish those photographs were mine! No way though ~ those were taken by Tom George Davison.

 

[captaindrew]

You should do it and put your pics up here. I`m sure everyone here will appreciate them. For the short time I`ve been on here seems like a bunch of wonderful folks on here. None of that nonsense you were talking about earlier you see on facebook and some other forums I`ve looked at.

 

[LoriAnn]

I don't know why people don't use more common sense.

Agree. Common sense and a little compassion for each other.

Even though I shot, edited, and posted my photos with respect for the hobby and history in general, and so reenactors could see themselves in action (which is fun), now I feel like I've contributed to the humiliation of someone. It's an ugly thing.

You should do it and put your pics up here. I`m sure everyone here will appreciate them. For the short time I`ve been on here seems like a bunch of wonderful folks on here. None of that nonsense you were talking about earlier you see on facebook and some other forums I`ve looked at.

Without question, this forum will always get my CW-era photos first. As long as you guys are willing to put up with my practice shots. The good practice shots. Not the bad ones. Only certain people see the bad ones!

 

[Tin cup]

LoriAnn:

I wish you could have been to some of the events I have participated in. some of those were not spectator events, but events out in the field where NO modern intrusions were seen anywhere, men marching, fighting, and camping with what they carried in.

Some of the camp scenes would have made interesting subject matter for your photography.

Kevin Dally

 

[LoriAnn]

I wish you could have been to some of the events I have participated in. some of those were not spectator events, but events out in the field where NO modern intrusions were seen anywhere, men marching, fighting, and camping with what they carried in.

Some of the camp scenes would have made interesting subject matter for your photography.

My friend is plugged into the community and knows of both public and private events. He even marches and camps out with everyone. He does indeed get the best photos that way.

A little humor: Many of you guys know me well enough to know I'm not a "camp out" kind of girl. Nor am I a "marching" in the woods kind of girl either.

So I show up with my daughter for a private event, we have cameras in hand, and the hardcore photographer friend comes up and says with great enthusiasm, "Are you guys going for the full 8 miles?! Did you bring food and water?!"

You can imagine the look I gave him. 8 miles? In the woods? In my nice boots? With one granola bar?

I got ONE shot ~ Union soldiers walking off into the distance.

(And my profile picture is me heading in the other direction. Bye, boys! I'm going to Starbucks!)

 

[Tin cup]

My friend is plugged into the community and knows of both public and private events. He even marches and camps out with everyone. He does indeed get the best photos that way.

A little humor: Many of you guys know me well enough to know I'm not a "camp out" kind of girl. Nor am I a "marching" in the woods kinda of girl either.

So I show up with my daughter for a private event, we have cameras in hand, and the hardcore photographer friend comes up and says with great enthusiasm, "Are you guys going for the full 8 miles?! Did you bring food and water?!"

You can imagine the look I gave him. 8 miles? In the woods? In my nice boots? With one granola bar?

I got ONE shot ~ Union soldiers walking off into the distance.

(And my profile picture is me heading in the other direction. Bye, boys! I'm going to Starbucks!)

Well, here is one where we are loading, getting ready for a (roughly) 3 mile march at FT. Blakeley, earlier this month.

Kevin Dally

 

[Craig L Barry]

Well, here is one where we are loading, getting ready for a (roughly) 3 mile march at FT. Blakeley, earlier this month.

Kevin Dally
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Good turn out, Kevin. I heard good things about Ft Blakely.

 

[Tin cup]

Good turn out, Kevin. I heard good things about Ft Blakely.

It was one of the most unique events I have ever been to! But the turn out on the Federal side was a bit disappointing, we should have had 2X as many!

Kevin Dally

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

My friend is plugged into the community and knows of both public and private events. He even marches and camps out with everyone. He does indeed get the best photos that way.

A little humor: Many of you guys know me well enough to know I'm not a "camp out" kind of girl. Nor am I a "marching" in the woods kind of girl either.

So I show up with my daughter for a private event, we have cameras in hand, and the hardcore photographer friend comes up and says with great enthusiasm, "Are you guys going for the full 8 miles?! Did you bring food and water?!"

You can imagine the look I gave him. 8 miles? In the woods? In my nice boots? With one granola bar?

I got ONE shot ~ Union soldiers walking off into the distance.

(And my profile picture is me heading in the other direction. Bye, boys! I'm going to Starbucks!)

Tom has camped with us! A fine fellow to have around!

 

[Tin cup]

It's been the past several years that the serious (aka "authentic") side of the hobby have been doing "adjunct" units at mainstream events. I have participated in a few of these over the last 4 years.

What is usually done is they form units, or battalions that many times camp away from the mainstream units, but either march into battle separately from the mainstreamers, or at the same time. It is a good recruiting tool, as I have seen for myself at events mainstream reenactors will come up to those adjunct units, and want to know who they are, desiring to know more about they're equipage, uniforms, they want to be more of a part of THAT side of the hobby...I have seen several folk recruited in such a way.

Kevin Dally

 

[johan_steele]

All that can be and should be asked of someone is that they do their best and put forward.

There is always that one schmuck who wants to be better than everyone else and will spare no effort to convince themselves how much better than everyone else they are.

I'm of the mindset that if the organizers & public are happy with me I'm doing something right.

 

[Tennessee_Mountainman]

I'm sorry guys but this:

@Albert Sailhorst can agree with me on this one.