Firing the cannon

[RBSinTo]

This was shot in 2002 at an American Civil War Re-enactment at Black Creek Pioneer village, here in Toronto.
In addition to the actual battles being fought, there were demonstrations and displays of various crafts and skills of the period.
The firing of one of the field pieces took place in a large open patch of ground and I used a motor-driven camera and wide lens to grab this shot.
motorized Nikon FA
Nikkor 24 2.8 AIS manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
5.6 @ 1/1000th

[armando_m]

Awesome scene !

[RBSinTo]

Thanks Armando.
After the crew explained how and what they were doing, they gave a count-down to firing the shot, so I had time to get ready and when they got close, I used the drive to take a sequence of shots, hoping to catch the muzzle flash, which I was lucky enough to get. However, while doing that there was a bit of camera drift to the right, which is why the figure on the left is badly cropped.
Robert

[Hugh_3170]

Robert, I do like this image - as close as I want to get to a cannon!  (The artillery cannon that is.  )

[Bruno Schroder]

Actually I like the left crop, it strengthens the feeling of "people trying to escape the cannon".

[RBSinTo]

Hugh, Bruno,
thanks for commenting.
Robert