Chêne Bleu Wines – Launch Event

Wow – this is a late one.
Just back from a corporate event. Chêne Bleu Wines from La Verrière were launching their label in the UK and they were holding the launch party in Belgravia in London (https://www.bottaccio.co.uk/)

I was working alongside my friend Helen Jones and we both have studio lighting which we both had to bring in order to light this event.

One area was for after the guests drop in their coats and move through to the wine sampling room so they could try the new range of wines launched on the night.
Due to some limitations on space we set up my large octabox on one of my Elinchrom heads planted on a tall stand and this was used for the couples/portrait shots as the guests arrived.

Upstairs we had another 2 Elnchroms set up to light a n area in front of a painted scrim between 2 columns with vases and shrubbery. The theme of the party was Toga and so the Greek look fitted into the rest of the party’s layout nicely. We were using 3 flash heads which left us with our fourth as a backup which was ideal

None of the studio lights were set to ‘slave’ mode to stop them being triggered by the guest’s cameras and so we were triggering all the flashes with my wireless radio triggers (PocketWizards), but even though we were on 2 separate floors we had to make sure they were in independent channels to ensure we weren’t triggering the other set by mistake.

PocketWizards (https://www.pocketwizard.com/) are an amazing piece of kit and definitely worth their weight in gold for their versatility, 100% performance and range of operation