My father wrote an article on creating period fonts for the October 2010 Model Railroad Craftsman. I took the model photos for him.
I tried something new on this shot and was pretty pleased with the results. I created a sky-like canopy over the entire area included in the shot with umbrellas. The thought was that this arrangement might better simulate light from the nature sky than trying to fill in shadows with a few spot lights.
By the end of this shoot, the umbrellas were practically enveloping the building and surrounding scenery. There was just enough room for the camera (which was unfortunately still on a tripod as I was firing the flashes multiple times to get enough light on the scene.) The room lights are off to avoid the ugly colors created by two different types of light source.
