The 911 operator:-)

Making something out of a long night shift:-)

During a nightshift in the local "911 central" I wanted to make an image that gives the feeling of a control room. The central is a  technological place with lots of computer screens and telephone devices.
I chose a blue whitebalance setting to create the technological cool mood.
A problem when you use this whitebalance setting is that the operators face turns blue.
That makes the operator look like a corpse:-)
I  wanted to mix blue with a complementary color. I positioned a SB800 flash in front of the operator and gelled the flash orange. (you can see the flash unfortunately:-) The flash was in manual mode and I took some test shots to get the light I wanted. Then I tried to compose the image with the screens as a leading line.
I wanted the operators eyes to be the ending point. I cropped the image slightly in post production to get the framing exactly how I wanted.
Then I waited (not very long:-) for an emergency call before I took the shoot. That makes it a bit more real I think.....
Image number one is the result.
Image number two is with exif data, and some thoughts about composition.