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    Fort Henry Guard Gunnery Crew

    Fort Henry at Kingston, Canada, which guards the entrance of the Rideau Canal is both a National Historic Site of Canada and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Rideau Canal. The large fort is the second fort built on this site and was built from 1832 - 1836 to counter a threat from the USA.

    During the summers, the Fort Henry Guard (which has been around 1938) are part of the interpretation program run at the site. This shot shows the Guard gunnery crew cleaning up the 6-pound guns at the end of the day.


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    Re: Fort Henry Guard Gunnery Crew

    Well seen and captured Manfred. The shadows give a depth to the image, I suspect that you were prevented from capturing the nearest persons full shadow by some restriction, or maybe it was a deliberate compositional choice. Well done Manfred.


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    Two men working six men watching
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    Re: Fort Henry Guard Gunnery Crew

    Look again...4 working, 4 supervising. At least there are 4 working...different breed of crews to the street/road construction workers.

    Anyway, I like the POV of this shot but what is that seemingly wet smear on the ground? Is that oil ? Or deliberate special effects on the processing? Just curious...

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    Re: Fort Henry Guard Gunnery Crew

    Nicely composed shot.

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    Re: Fort Henry Guard Gunnery Crew

    Quote Originally Posted by ST1 View Post
    I suspect that you were prevented from capturing the nearest persons full shadow by some restriction, or maybe it was a deliberate compositional choice.
    Thanks Peter - the restriction was the inner wall of the fortress. I had to trim a tiny bit of the image where this ran along the bottom edge of the image; I simply could not lean over any further to get the shot. I suspect I would have had to crop that shadow regardless, to maintain the balance in the image


    Quote Originally Posted by IzzieK View Post
    Anyway, I like the POV of this shot but what is that seemingly wet smear on the ground? Is that oil ? Or deliberate special effects on the processing? Just curious...
    Thanks Izzie - It's water that they were using to clean the guns. If you look carefully where the two guns almost meet, you can see a drain grate in the fortress floor. There was a tiny bit of hose on the very left in the original image that I cloned out to retain the period look.


    Here is the SOOC jpeg showing both these "issues"...

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    Last edited by Manfred M; 26th August 2017 at 02:33 PM. Reason: Added SOOC image

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    Re: Fort Henry Guard Gunnery Crew

    Wonderful POV! I have shot old-time cannon practice at many American Civil War reenactments but I have never been in a position to get a neat shot like this one!

    BTW: They are not "just standing around" each of the crew has a specific job assigned. They do not all work at once but, when they are shooting and reloading the piece, it is like a well oiled machine (or should be)...

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