I shot an assignment recently for the adventure racing event organiser Endurance Life which included photographing each team as they left the overnight camp at Princetown on Dartmoor to head out into the night on an orienteering portion of the Coast2Coast 2008. This was a last minute booking and due to prior commitments I could only arrive at the location 30 minutes before the 10:00pm start, and with the ambient light pretty much gone from the sky at this point it was obvious that I’d need to set-up some off-camera strobes to provide the lighting. It was pretty tight but needless to say I got the lighting gear set up, fired off a few test frames to check the exposure and flash ratios and was ready to start shooting by the time the competitors started to line up. The image above is of one of the teams waiting at the start (they were set-off in 30-second intervals), checking their lights and maps before heading out onto the moors.
