Tom in the Park

 Above is Tom, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and Husband of the lovely Camilla (see previous post)

Tom requested a shoot after seeing Camilla's final images, so we headed out to a location in Windsor Great Park on a very hot evening.

I used a couple of lights for most of the shots, underexposing the evening sky to get a rich blue and then re-lighting Tom to the correct exposure.

There was some very old trees which looked good in the images, so we utilised them in various shots as Tom wanted a 'natural' theme to his shoot.

 

Below is a behind the scenes shot of Tom on a tree with my flashes lighting him and part of the tree behind him-a very simple set up but looks great in the final image.

 

 After a couple of hours we headed home happy in the fact that we had a wide variety of images that Tom can use for promotion such as flyers, posters and maybe a CD cover in the near future.

Camilla

 

I met up with Camilla on probably one of the hottest days of the year to create some images that she can use for Press and PR purposes.

We started out at an old disused garage but then went on to a open grassy area for the rest of the shoot in the sun.

 

I placed Camilla in the shade so she didn't squint  against the sun and lit her from the front to balance the exposure against the background, without being lit she would have been almost a silhouette, I also lit her from the side to put a rim light on her hair and left arm.

The best thing to ask a musician to do when having their picture taken is just to play, as any feelings of self consciousness seem to go as they concentrate on their music leaving me to capture the best image possible.

 

Later we went to some very ornate gates to shoot some more images in front of the stone column, the lighting was roughly the same but due to the slightly different angle the sun itself rim lit Camilla's left side.

 

Colour is very important in an image so when Camilla got out a rather beautiful wood guitar that had a lovely colour I was really pleased as the orangey/red of the guitar contrasted nicely with her blue jeans and the green background.

 

After a few hours in the sun i headed home for a very welcome cool drink.