Unfortunately I had been away shooting landscapes and had rearranged my bag. I had taken everything out I didn't need for landscapes to save lugging all the extra gear around. I'm used to everything being in the right place in the bag and had decided that this shoot would be on location. Unfortunately I had put some of my most important things in a different bag. You know so I would know where they were when I needed them. Unfortunately head = sieve.
My studio at home is my conservatory so it can get a little crowded in the house sometimes. Make-up, clothes, people, me, cups of tea. I do like to change it up so as not to become stale with too many of one or the other studio or location shoots. I know plenty of photographers that do the same stuff day in and day out but that bores the crap out of me.
So when Laura & Libby turn up with Spike-on-a-rope™ I decided for the sake of our braaaiiiins that we would rock a location shoot. I've shot down by the Oasis many times and it's always fun seeing the looks on people's faces as they pass by (It's a major public footpath into town). Most people have a "WTF?" look but try not to make eye contact. There are exceptions, those being mainly gangs of kids armed with all the questions. Also in keeping with tradition on my location shoots the police turned up, but not until the end of the shoot when we were going home. They were looking for some bald guy apparently. Didn't remember seeing one of those. Not, strangely enough, a zombie in a noose being flashed by a slave. I definitely would have remembered that.
We had a great shoot even with my embarrassment at leaving important bits of kit at home. I worked it out (thanks to Andy's suggestion of using slave mode on the second flash) It was a learning experience - "Keeping smiling and waving and don't let them see the fear in your eyes." - and thankfully everyone loved their photos.
...and no-one got eaten.
Next time with LL&S it's pin-up!
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