Waiting for the chips

I always come away from here wishing I had tried something a wee bit different.
With exposures coming up to the 20 or 30 second mark, if darkly clad, you can walk quickly in to the frame, fire the flash to one side of the hull and jump out again remaining invisible. My head torch isn't as bright as it used to be and I couldn't see to manually focus so that was guess work too.

Next time I will try a diffeent torch, higher ISO and ignore the camera metering.