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I recently did a shoot for Jen Summers of Sugarpuss Clothing showing off her new line of clothing at the Cabana Club in Hollywood, CA. This was a last minute call to duty late on a Friday night. Fortunately Aileen and I were already out in Hollywood with some friends. the gig was only a few miles across Hollywood from our location at the time. How long does it take to drive two miles in Hollywood, park and figure out how to get into the club where we would be shooting???.. About 45 minutes. Anyway, once inside I barely had time to shoot one of the models before they went up on stage…. After the show I was supposed to meet the girls over at the red carpet area.. HAHA yeah right! They didn’t show up so Aileen and I went looking through the club looking for them. We got lucky and found Jen with a few of the girls who wanted to have their photos taken cruising around the club. We had like zero setup time and for most of these shots we were shooting in near total darkness. Practically impossible to focus without assistance from the infrared focusing beam coming out of the flash mounted on my hotshoe. We did a two light setup using Nikon SB-800′s. One on camera and the other mounted on a stick with Aileen acting as the voice activated light stand (thanks!). Shooting conditions were constantly changing so I decided to use TTL control on both flashes since we were so pressed for time and really had no time to be gauging proper exposure etc…(I think it was 2AM by this time). Truly this was a run-and-gun shooting style.. thank you Nikon for making this possible. In general I shoot fully manual, but with this type of shoot crowded club, changing conditions and low visibilty being able to go TTL was a blessing!

Enjoy the pictures!

B