The light meter on your camera may not be able to accurately judge best aperture setting for longer shutter speeds, especially in low-light situations, so your best bet is probably to "bracket." This means taking up to six pictures of same subject, but doubling shutter speed each time. This will give you a variety of effects and exposures and allow you to choose best shot. In general, slow shutter speeds will allow a lot of light into camera, which means that you will want to use a small aperture (ie. f/22) to avoid over-exposing shot. In bright daylight it will be necessary to use lowest ISO available and a neutral density filter to cut light down.

Some great effects and shutter speeds to try are:

Moving stars: several hours Moving cars at night: 10 seconds Waterfalls: 4 seconds + Amusement park rides: 1 second

If you don't have enough material to do a 1-piece body, you can do 2 and piece them together using a shoulder strap.

It depended on how much material they had. You can only tell if it is a 2-piece body if you turn shirt inside out. Yes, 2-piece body was common during Civil War times.

There were many civilian shirts during war and they varied greatly because many of them were sent from home.

All my shirts have glass buttons on them, but that is no rule either.

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