Martyrs and Kings

 

Martyrs and Kings came second in the Jagz Band Competition so one of their prizes was a days shoot with me.

We started out at the fantastic Alma Pub in Windsor which has a fantastic interior for shoots, see below.....

 

Then we moved to Windsor town centre where we utilised a bright yellow shutter, then onto the location you see below, basically it is a very large metal container behind an office in a business park just outside Reading.

 

 

As you may see from the image, I changed the colour balance of the camera to Tungsten to get some cool blues in the ambient light, then put a CTB (Colour Temperature Orange) gel over the main flash facing the band and kept the flash that is rear right un-gelled to give a cool blue rim light to the band, while the gelled light brings the band back to normal colour temperature.

 

I got the band to do some different relaxed poses for me looking to and away from camera, after, we went into Reading to a location that had a fantastic mural painted on the wall.

After about seven hours of shooting we called it a day and headed home.

 

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Alexander at the Troubadour

Below is the fantastic Alexander McKay at the Troubadour Club in London

The Troubadour Club has a long heritage of quality music and iconic performers stretching back many years, it also has a fantastic charm about it, i'd often wanted to go there so when I heard Alex was playing there I went along to get some images of him on stage and afterwards.

 

At the back of the venue are some very small alcoves with red walls and dark green benches, I asked Alex to sit on one side while I put a single flash in an umbrella in the walkway outside, we did a few different shots, looking at the camera and away, to produce the ones you see below, a nice touch was the fact that the table had some engraved images of guitars in them which you can hopefully see in the images, one camera, one subject, one flash and a cool location, a very simple set up.....

 

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Hal Cruttenden at SHP

Above is the brilliantly funny Hal Cruttenden, photographed at the South Hill Park Comedy Cellar bar.

He was top of the bill and didn't disappoint, especially as he had come straight to the club after doing Pantomime in Woking earlier in the evening.

 

I photographed a few different comedians that night in between laughing,

Below are... MC Tom Webb, Michael Fabbri and TJ McDonald 

All the Comedians were great to photograph as they are all mostly very expressionate so I can capture the looks they have as they perform.