This is Toronto Improv team Kung F-U. It's a very funny bunch of people, and I've been lucky to work with some of them both on stage and behind the camera Anyway, I'm pretty proud of this shot. It's real ghetto photography to me They told me that they wanted a group photo that was in the same style as movie posters for a caper movie.

I kept my eyes open as I drove around the city for a cool location, and on the night of the shoot, I took them to this dark alley that I had spotted earlier in the week.

The shoot was very challenging. First of all, it was dark. The only light was from the headlights of the two cars I set up behind them to cast interesting shadows on the wall and ground. It was also cold, with wind whipping down the tunnel of this alley. Poor Amica in her little kilt and tank top was freezing. I don't know how she managed to stay looking so hot

I had my little battery-powered Vivitar 283 flash on a skinny portable light stand to provide main light on the scene. The wind kept catching the white umbrella I used to to diffuse the light, and the whole thing was always in danger of falling over. To get this low angle and make them look dramatic, I had to crouch in a pile of something squishy I can only hope was tortellini. It was dark though, and I couldn't really see what it was.

I used a 24mm lens to slightly exaggerate the perspective and make that tunnel look long, and to make Kung F-U look imposing. We shot until the cold killed the batteries in my flash, and this is one of the results. I only had to give them minimal direction, and it was mainly to get them positioned in the frame how I wanted them. As you might expect some of from Toronto's best improvisers, their poses and expressions are perfect for the shot.