Belfast Banshees vs Stuttgart Bad Seeds

Shooting roller derby again on Saturday just past, and a first ever international bout in Belfast with the Stuttgart "B" team travelling to take on the Belfast Banshees. I had picked up an extra Nikon SB-800 flashgun second hand during the week and pressed it into service as my key light, lighting down the straight. The SB-800 was backed up by my two faithful SB-700's as fill lights on corners 3 and 4 with the really old reliable SB-28 parked on my back up body which was equipped with my other second hand purchase of the week, a Samyang 8mm fisheye lens.

8mm Fisheye lens in action

Anyhooo, the lighting with three flash units worked really well, as did setting a custom white balance using the weird mix of flash and flourescent.

Rosa "Sigourney Cleaver" Hughes takes her bow

The bout itself was really close and pretty exciting, with the lead changing hands a couple of times druing a hectic first period.

Stuttgart were heading for a big win with a 40+ points lead in the last few minutes until the unstoppable Hanabolic Steroids hit the track to jam for Belfast in what was the final jam of the night.

Hannabolic pulled out all the stops, aided by some pretty dedicated blocking and closed the gap to a very respectable 16 points before the final whistle.

A big result for Belfast and one which will move them up a few places in the European rankings.