Above are a few image that I produced for a new CD cover for the Sha La La's.
We all met up one evening at a disused garage near Ascot and spent about two hours creating images in and around the garage buildings.
I used one light for the second image, but in most cases used three to produce some rear/side lighting, the third image from top has three lights in use, one as a key light straight onto the band, one inside the building to light the side of John in the blue shirt standing and one from the rear right to rim light Darron in the red shirt.
In the top image I put a keylight onto the front of the band with another behind them to put some rim light onto them otherwise they would have blended into the darkness behind them.
I've mentioned before on this blog that I feel lighting makes the image, especially so as without lights on this shoot you would be looking at four black squares.............
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Below is a behind the scenes shot of the band being lit by one light, i've pulled back to show the band and light together as we were trying to get the white arrow that was painted on the floor into the shoot (see second image from top)
The blurriness around the band is a little trick I know, basically take the picture with a slow shutter and twist the camera at the same time, the ambient light blurs and anything hit by flash is 'frozen', simple but very effective......
We wrapped up about ten o'clock that night with lots of good varied images for a potential CD artwork, an enjoyable evening with a great bunch of blokes, see them live-you won't regret it!
PS.... I went back to the studio to do another shot of the band before their rehearsal, I had the idea in my mind for a while, just needed a dark room, 3 flashes and some card!
Basically I shone 2 flashes through a slit in a v large piece of card on camera right with a flash camera left behind and to one side of the band, see below for the final image...maybe one for the next album or a poster/flyer.
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