Another Charity ball today, seems like a popular time of year for them. This time it was at the Hilton Hotel in Maidstone.

The charity was organised by a lovely lady, how looked after us very well on the night, however, I couldn’t tell you what it stands for…Gynacologist…something or other. NOT Great Ormand Street Hospital.

The man you see at the top of the post is a bass player (his wife’s a doctor of some sort) who plays all over the world. Most recently with a band called ‘The Mad Pimps’ in spain.

Hit the jump for some more shots…

So we were using some different lights today. Some beautiful Bowens Esprits.

Unfortunately we only had two heads, which wasn’t ideal for a cloth background, especially as we were a bit limited for space.

What was funny were the hotel staff…

Now, bless their hearts, I know it’s their responsibility to make the place look nice…but…they took it to the extremes.

Not only did we have to be very orderly and neat (read: line up our tables exactly and straighten our table cloths exactly) but we even had to obscure all our wires with table skirting(!).

Still, all that got sorted by the staff and we went on with the night.

We had a lot of people come over, and a very nice man offered to buy us some drinks…not before introducing me to his daughter, mind.

The we had the lights set up quite heavy camera right. This was only because of space limitations, though, so don’t go following my example. We had a shoot through umbrella lighting the background and a softbox at the front.

If we’d had more space, we would have placed the shoot through to the left of the studio space.

We still managed to get some fairly good shots out of it though, and made lots of sales, so we were happy.

The night was a success, and after deciding people were getting a little too drunk around us, we took off at midnight.

Here’s one last shot to see you off:

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