Cirque Du Sony Ericsson

Made this purely as a thank you for everyone who attended the FMI Group party

Cirque Du Sony Ericsson

Green Screen Photography in a tight space!

We attended a brilliant party organised by FMI Group for Sony Ericcson to treat the Carphone Warehouse group as a thank you for their work. The party was at the Circus bar in Covent Garden. We had a very small space to work in but managed to put up a small green screen and floor. Lighting was tricky, no room either side for the usual shoot through umbrellas to light the green screen, so we had to position wireless flash guns on the floor lighting up the screen. We shot the guests using a softbox with another wirless flash inside, all driven by the built-in commander flash on the Nikon D700.

We managed to get a viewing station set up on a counter, with the Mitsubishi Click system powering a 9550 photolab. We shoot wirelessly using a Nikon D700 with a low light 24-70mm f2.8 pro lens linked by a WT-4 to a hub. As we shoot photos are sent to the viewing station. Guests choose the pose they like then the images are sent to the Click system. Elaine was operating the Click's green screen software. We had designed a selection of Circus themed backdrops all branded with Sony's logos.

The most popular by far was the Tiger in the cage, followed by a circle of fire, then a more subdued harlequin backdrop to match the Circus theme. There was entertainment all night, Burlesque dancers, trapeze artistes, Hula dancers and stilt walkers, who all performed on the stage which is right in the centre of the venue. But we were by far the most popular attraction, absolutely mobbed all night, and by the end of the evening 280 large 9"x 6" photographs had been shot, editted, green screened, printed and framed!