We are lucky to have Mike Eddows who is a proffessional theatre photographer as a member of our club. Mike offered to do an evening of hands on theatre photography for the club. We set out to create an image for a show poster and a couple of images for publicity.
Tamplin Stage Lighting very kindly lentus lights so we were able to create theatre lighting conditions.
The show we were covering was a whodunnit, Peter Michell made the mistake of arriving without a camera so he became our detective and the subject of our poster shot. Seventeen members queued up, cameras in hand and had a go. It is quite difficult to do, although the lights looked very bright to us in fact they aren't so it needed a high ISO, wide aperture and a steady hand to get a good image.
For the second half of the evening Mike set up a scene where his partner Louise played out being poisoned, she did a very good job of repeatedly dying while we all tried to get great shots.
Many thanks to all who put in a lot of effort to make the eveing a success, especially Mike and Louise who put together a great evening for us.
