Friday 27 July 2012

Colour and Light


Adam is a DJ and all round cool dude.
He wanted some images he could use for general PR purposes, ie, business card, poster etc.
A few miles from me is a skate park that has the most amazing graffiti on the walls that surround it.
After we worked out some poses and ideas, i lit Adam from the front right and rear left, bringing the front light down lower than the rear to get light up under his hat and also to spill onto the colourfull background,
you can see in the image, the rear light puts some needed light onto Adam's back, otherwise it would be in shadow.
Without the flash the image would be quite boring and dull, flash really helps to lift an image, even in broad daylight.

Friday 6 July 2012

Duncan
















Duncan is a Saxofonist of great talent, i met him thru a fellow band member of his who plays keyboards.
He lives in Kingston upon Thames in some trendy flats right next to the Thames so that was our location.
Once on the roof we found a couple of places to shoot

The top image was by some air conditioning units that serves the flats, i thought they were a good element in the image to 'anchor' Duncan to- i suppose they reminded me of speakers in some way.
The bottom image was with Duncan against the railings that go round the edge of the flats, i liked the lead-in lines of the rail forcing your eye on to Duncan and his fantastic saxaphone which was truly a work of art!.

The lighting was very simple, one flash with an umbrella, held firmly by my trusty sidekick John, with the flash balanced with the existing ambient light. The top images has the ambient light dropped  for effect.
I gave Duncan a series of images in colour and black and white that he could use for print and web.