Aerlise is locked in metal bondage, wrists in a medieval-style metal fiddle and ankles locked in heavy old-style Darby cuffs.

Hywel's note: we shot this as a test case using a new flash system which supposedly allowed off-camera flash with high

speed sync and auto-setting of flash exposure. With a small flash head, we could also experiment with moving the flash around, useful

when shooting in such a tight space. We've shot on the stairs once or twice before but the model and photographer always had to

be quite static in order to let us get some light on the scene. Here, Steve and I were pointing a softbox on a pole around

and could move it to experiment with different effects and to make sure it was out of shot, for a greater shot variety.

It was a bit tricky to control, but it let us get some really strong shots where Aerlise was getting into positions we could not normally

have lit and shot on the stairs. Cool experiment, lots of lessons learned.