Take 18 Firemen....

Limavady Fire Brigade, they do a brilliant job, end of story. Getting all 18 of them in the same room at the same time takes some organisation.

Only one day in October could we get all of them to sync for a ten minute time frame for a photo. I had a bunch of ideas but with drills and the rest of it, it just never happened.

Watching them stop the traffic in Limavady just to turn two tenders around for a photo, well that was fun.

Lighting wise it wasn't easy, there was a dozen misses and only a few hits. The strip lights causing most of my nightmares (you can see their reflections in the windscreens of the tenders, I would have needed to hang some serious amount of black cloth to kick those out*). If anything more light, much more light, would have done the trick. But we have what we have, and what we do with it is what counts.


So, Fuji S5 with an SB800 running bare.

*Note to self: get thirty foot by ten foot of black cloth.