I’ve got my viewing loupe jammed into my eye. I'm trying to focus on the subjects eyes with live view zoomed in and trying to focus using the knob on the Petzval. I'm trying to keep everything steady by gripping the camera and lens tightly while pushing everything into my face to brace it steady even more. Then, my eye starts fogging up the viewing loupe.
It's a mess. I'm a mess using this free handed. Anything for the shot, right?
One of the things you have to be careful with at meetups is what I call "location creep". I had noticed that during the meetup nobody was shooting the models together. I waited until the very end of the meetup when everyone said they were done and had their fill, and I asked the two models to follow me over to a location that hadn't been used yet. I set them up on either side of this interesting sculpture.