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posted June 26, 2012 / 4 Comments

This week’s Time Travel Tuesday shot was taken a few weeks ago at the Revolutionary War encampment at Rock Ford Plantation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  I’m rather proud of this shot, as it is extremely difficult to get a volley photo in which you can actually see the muzzle blast!

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Kelsey is the editor of Historically Speaking, one of several blogs she runs. She has been a reenactor for 16 years and in those years has portrayed a thousand year span of history. Though she has recently been getting back into her 18th century impressions, she has a strong fondness for her WWII Soviet and Spanish Civil War impressions.

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    Gertie
    June 27, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    There’s a secret to photographing a musket blast. When they yell fire, hit the button on your camera. It takes about the same amount of time for the blast to travel down the musket barrel as it does for the shutter to open on your camera.

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      Kelsey
      June 27, 2012 at 8:22 pm

      Thanks for the advice! I typically put my camera onto burst mode, so I end up with around 10 shots over the course of a second or so, but even still, it’s rare that I capture one! I’ve actually considered switching to high-res video mode (which on my camera is around 2200px) and simply picking out the relevant frames later.

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    Pvte Paulie McCamanagh etc etc
    July 4, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Those British volleys at Rock Ford were something else. I died and as they fired over me at the rebels it felt like an earthquake. I guess we were concentrated in a small space and so we had the densities you might find in a big European battle of the time. How men stood up to volleys like that, and certain death, is astonishing.

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