How to turn Portrush weather into summer.

Portrush, the golden jewel of the North Coast. Known for it's rare sun, rare temperatures, motorbikes and Barry's Amusements. For kids the world over it's a BIG deal to get there.

As ever I keep an eye on the forecast which was cloudly, the odd rain shower but dry. Wrong. Over the Coleraine mountain there was a lot of rain, it was just trying to figure out which way it was going.... Portrush direction from my guessing.



When I arrived most of the crew (see above) were already there. All those people for one model, it was a good laugh as well, which always helps. Once latte's were consumed it was down to work. Now Ashleen was a total star considering that the temperature was not exactly the best, plus she has a small audience in the form of restaurant goers peering out of the window. Not to mention that it was practise lap night for the Northwest 200 so there were motorbikes everywhere apart from where we were.

In the car was my light kit: Sigma flash, Nikon Speedlight, Fuji S5 Pro, monopod, reflectors, two banks of 5ft striplights and a lot of gels, plus a laptop and lot of A clamps, muslins and assorted light shaping stuff. Come prepared! I hardly used any of it. In fact the one that was left on the living room floor at home was possible the one thing I needed.

So, how do you turn Portrush drab light into summer, half cut CTO over the Nikon Speedlight did the trick nicely. And with Ashleen having ginger hair the CTO just lifted everything up nicely, she was totally professional and didn't moan once, in fact I made more of a fuss by making her wear a blanket every five minutes and when I needed to setup the next shot.

I'm not going to put any images up until the posters are done for the catwalk show.