The shoot that nearly wasn't

A chance to take some pictures in a studio doesn't come round all that often, and so with a plan and some fellow photographers the plan was made.

1. Choose a time and date for the shoot we could all make
2. Find a venue for the studio, a nice big village hall plenty of space for a studio set-up
3. Find a model or maybe even two willing to model perhaps time for prints

So you do all that then four days before the hall you booked tells you the builders are coming and the ceiling is coming down. Do you really need all that space, can a smaller room do? Time for cunning plan B (and actually plan C too). With the studio options using a local hall running out plan B was a location shoot in an industrial area a litte off the beaten track. The model was happy to move locations for somewhere unheated and open to the elements, the photographers all charging Speedlite batteries in anticipation. So that was plan B.

The results with big thanks to Lauzie_b from PureStorm are a testament to the flexibility of the Canon wireless flash system. All night the three photographers used the same Speedlites, sometimes setting power individually from the master, sometimes using ratio control with E-TTL II but mostly with novel lighting clamps and brackets.

We made the most of a peeling paint backdrop in the first two then moved to a blue painted door in the next. At the end of the shoot we had four Speedlites on the go in an X shape lighting Lauzie_b from both sides front and rear. It was also nearly dark.

Remember the plan C mentioned above, it happened too! When the hall ceiling issue cropped up I put in plan C in case, an afternoon shoot with a model in some local woods. Needless to say this happened and the shoot finished around 45 minutes before the one with Lauzie above. Time for a swift coffee and blueberry muffin at Costa coffee in between shoots. I'll post some of the Jennie shots later.

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