Are your kids safe on the web?

That's the question that the Government Education Agency wanted to help people answer. So they called me in to get some pictures that would convey that message. Of course it wasn't just me they called, it was an entire classroom full of kids!

So how do you turn a school IT room full of kids into a scary cyber zone? Well...start by lowering the ambient light (i.e. turning them off!). Then use a blue gel over one flash for background whilst lighting the subject with a heavily snooted second flash to avoid him looking like a smurf.



Of course if you really wanted to shut out the entire school background, turn off the gelled flash and just leave the snooted one to light the subject. Oh and of course turn the camera to give it a bit more atmosphere.



The only trouble with this job was the jitters I got every time I had to walk past the headmasters office....