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A couple of weeks back I attended one of the two “reasonably smart” evening occasions that PooterGeekers kindly invited me to in response to my appeal so that I could test out some wacky lighting techniques. This was photographing various Latin American performers at a Cambridge college ball. I’m sure you’ll agree such a setting can be a challenging one in which to perform…

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…but such is my love for my art that I endured, exposing myself to whatever spectacles my surroundings presented, recording them faithfully in the tradition of the great masters of reportage…

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A very few of my experiments worked. I was trying out a range of freaky home-made diffusers on my flash guns. Sadly, some of them interfered with the infra-red beams—which I didn’t want—as well as softening the light source—which I did—so my hit rate was low and the results weren’t what I was hoping for, but that’s exactly why I didn’t feel I could charge anyone money for them. Worse, the scanner at the lab used to digitize the negatives introduced lots of noise to the (intentionally) dark originals.

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Thanks to percussionist Martin Goodson—in the foreground of the image above—for getting me on the guest list. The excellent band is called Lido66.

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