St. Albans Aerial Trapeze Session, a set on Flickr.
So this was quite nerve wracking. I had been asked to shoot Jane's trapeze group. When you are asked to do something the expectation of you is ramped up. I didn't want to do just the live shots like I would at a gig, but rather I wanted to have some degree of control over the lighting. With this in mind I packed all my strobe gear into the car along with background stand, backdrops etc, and stumbled into the venue like the worst kind of weekend warrior. I set up some lights, and the backdrop around one of the lower trapezes, and perched, very uncomfortable on a step ladder, started to snap my first volunteer. Luckily it was Jane, so I didn't feel like such a fool asking her to do things. The first problem I encountered is that the backdrop was too far away to be effective, and became just another distraction in the background. The next problem was that to capture the shapes of the routines I had to move around quite a lot, and so lot the advantage the height of the ladder gave me. I got to a point where I was getting the brollies in the pictures which does not look good. Then disaster struck. The electric in the building blew. The fuse boxes were quickly checked, and the owner of the building consulted. It became apparent that the electricity was not coming back on in a hurry. In an effort to make the most of the situation I switched to a couple of portable flashguns, but the results were far from ideal. Next time, we will plan the moves better, and give the trapeze artistes more useful direction.
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