I spent most of this shoot in a dark, oil coated, freezing-cold building. Studio 81 on Kirkstall Road, kindly gave me permission to shoot in an old disused bus depot in Leeds for a promotional shoot for a TV series currently in development called, Primary Faction. With only limited time before the natural light was gone, I had to work fast to get through the huge shot list, and towards the end of the day, I had to get someone to hold a brightly lit iPhone screen to the actors faces to be able to focus, in was that dark! The whole cast and crew were ace, and really put a lot into the shoot.
For the strobists amongst you: I was working with one Canon Speedlight 580 EXII, using a lastolite 80cm umbrella-box on a light stand, triggered using an Elinchrom Skyport, and both camera and flashgun were on manual. f-stops were around 5.6, shutter speeds anything between 1/30th and 1/160th, with ISO again starting at 200 increasing to 800 as the daylight vanished!
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