Another older shoot from the backlog, from mid November... We're both Scout Leaders, and one of our regular gigs at this time of year is to shoot the Chief Scout Award Presentations.
These take place at the City Hall in Bradford, over two nights, with the Lord Mayor presenting the awards.
Obviously we cannot show the pics from the actual awards on here for privacy reasons, so lots of shots of the set-up phases instead in the beautiful council chamber.
City Hall is a pretty impressive venue for this sort of thing, and actually as a location it tends to turn up in lots of TV stuff (for example it was the High Court in London during the recent version of the Great Train Robbery. On the second night we were there, they were filming an episode of Emmerdale in the building).
Lots of cabinets full of ceremonial silverware and similar.
Back in the room, lighting was a bit of an issue, because the new bulbs in the light fittings are ridiculously bright whilst the backgrounds are ridiculously dark, which confuses the hell out of the lighting sensors. Luckily the new SLR manages to cope, but it took a lot of trial and error to get the flashguns on the right setting.
On these occasions we both end up taking the photographs, as they do presentations from both sides of the Mayor's seat. At least it means there's lots to do with no sitting around when it gets going.
Both shoots went well- nice to be able to combine our voluntary scouting roles with our photography stuff. Now just the vast process of editing and getting pics printed and mounted...
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