I managed to squeeze a shoot in just before Christmas at a club I was already working at in Darlington. After the previous two pretty much failed attempts I knew that i would need a much more controlled environment if i was to get any kind of results. So this time I used an area behind the dj box, on the stage at a warehouse type nightclub venue called Seen.
It was in almost complete darkness that I set up the camera on a tripod next to a retro looking two seater leather settee. Hoping to get a better look lighting wise I brought a soft box for my flash unit so set that up on a tripod and attached the wireless triggers. The only light source back stage were two led red can type fittings that had been laid on the floor as a kind of make shift up lighters for the exposed brickwork and behind each stack of speakers facing the crowd. I turned one of these to be going up the wall in sight of the lens to give a little bit of a clue to the environment other than just the subjects.
I invited one of the DJ's to come and sit while I set the flash level and attempted to get focus. Once again it proved to be quite difficult to trust my eyes looking down the viewfinder with only the light of an Iphone to help to see. I was having flashbacks of the Subtrakt shoot. I got it as close as i could and tried a couple of test shots with out the film holding back attached to the body. The flash wasnt firing as the sync cable coming from the lens wasnt fitting as well as it could. So i lengthened the shutter speed to 1sec and fired the flash manually with the wireless triggers instead. All the shots turned out ok flash wise but the red light has come out over saturated and the focus could have benfited from a wider aperture to be a little wider to allow more movement in the chair when people where swapping over. Nice idea but not executed to the required standards again. Trying to create studio shots in a challenging environment was proving just that,a challenge!
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