Salisbury Fringe!

Day One of Salisbury's first ever 'Fringe' - "bite-size plays in Pubs and Cafes" - and I'm official snapper.

This is Nevertheless Productions of 'When She Imagines', performed by Sara Taylor and Directed by Rosie Finnegan. A set of three monologues featuring three very different women (played by same actress) aged 25, 50 and 75. All brand new work.

Second part 'Well Hello Five O' features a Colonial well-to-do wife suddenly finding herself redundant - from both job and marriage... here she argues with herself in her compact mirror. It's written by Tighe O'Connor.

Lens is Nikkor G 85mm f1.8, wide open. Plenty of light, held in a marquee in the garden of the Old Mill, Harnham, a gastro pub in gorgeous surroundings and a lovely afternoon.

I am taking this lens, my Nikkor D 50mm f1.4 and Sigma 24-70mm EX f2.8 to all venues, where I am anticipating the lighting will get a lot darker, later tonight and tomorrow. Munching a pizza before the evening's performance in 45 minutes!

Whilst many may see these fast, expensive lenses as "nice" lenses to have and use, with some great characteristics - to do this sort of work professionally, they are essential. This image has been cropped a little and the equivalent of 127mm f1.8 on the D7000 makes it ideal for back of the room shots. I used both other lenses too - the 24-70mm (eqv to 36-105mm) is ideal for groups of actors, especially if they are moving around and changing in both size and shape. A lovely, if very heavy (900g) lens.

More tomorrow. I hope to get back to usual Blip duties later, but you just never know - when you have been involved with a Project from the outset, a new one at that, then it is unpredictable. It's going brilliantly, so far....!