Saturday 28 February 2015

BBC Introducing: Saltwater Sun and The Parades

I recently photographed Saltwater Sun and The Parades at the Purple Turtle in Reading for the BBC Introducing spot, a couple of great bands that had their own styles.
The lighting was a bit tricky, as in not a lot of it and the fact that the BBC Introducing logo was being projected over the bands which gave them a real sickly green/blue colour cast-yuk! So I ended up with noisy green images....oh well...not a lot you can do about that apart from, add more clean light, don't project anything onto the performers etc, I suppose the colour lends a certain charm maybe? maybe not........ Great music though!


Monday 23 February 2015

Babyhowl at Charborough Studios

Berkshire's Baby Howl came into the studio at Charborough a few days ago to film a small part of their forthcoming video, I was helping out with the filming and getting some behind the scenes shots.

After all the recording was done I got the lads to give me 5 minutes to get a quick portrait of each of them. It was a very simple set up, one flash in a very small softbox at 90 degrees from the camera with a black 'flat' behind them image converted to mono with some high pass sharpening and a bit of contrast, all together it makes for a moody shot which suites their music I think.

I have shot them before in a few different locations for their promo images when they were a 4 piece, you can see that blogpost here


Check them out here, along with a recent interview and music on BBC Radio Berkshire
for BBC Introducing

















Thursday 19 February 2015

The Comedians....

Whenever i'm photographing Comedians during they're act I'm always struck by two things-how quickly they move on the (very small) stage bearing in mind they are just 'talking' to an audience and how much they use they're free hand.

Below are some of the comedians i have photographed recently-each one using they're hands to emphasise a joke, top downwards is Ninia Benjamin, Jen Brister, Edd Hedges, and Matt Richardson

As for the photos.... very red tungsten light colour balance, a high iso, wide aperture and a high shutter speed to capture the movement.




























Tuesday 17 February 2015

Live at Charborough: Andy Morritt

We recently had the pleasure of filming and recording the great Andy Morritt at Live@Charborough.
He sang a very soulful song called 'Lost in Oblivion' whilst playing piano, after a few takes we did a small shoot in the studio against some black 'flats' with him sitting on a monitor and one flash in an umbrella to camera left pointed down at a steep angle.



































I also took some behind the scenes images, this is the view from my camera during filming...