Tom Farrelly and the Third Lung, Live@Charborough

You may remember Tom from a previous post, this time he came along to Charborough studios with Sam and Rob under the title of 'Tom Farrelly and the Third Lung'.

They are a energetic full on band, Tom belted out a brilliant vocal as we filmed and recorded them.

I was filming Tom in the foreground with Bass player Rob in the background, alternatively focusing from one to another.
In between filming I managed to get some performance and behind the scenes images, some of which you see above.
Just a quick note, 'Live@Charborough' is coming soon, a chance to get recorded, video'ed and have promo images taken by a great team of creatives

Mr Ian Stone

I had the pleasure of photographing Mr Ian Stone recently at the Comedy Cellar Bar at South Hill Park in Bracknell.
He is one of those Comedians that has been performing for a long time (since 1991) and is an absolute master on stage, there was a couple of times when I was laughing too much to take pictures!

No flash needed on this job as there was sufficient stage lighting, although a high iso had to be used.
I output the images in mono, basically there is no colour interest there, just the performer, so I think it focuses (sorry!) the attention on the subject more

A pleasure to take pictures!

Lex at Revolution

You may remember Lex from a previous post

We got together recently to produce some images for his forthcoming EP, Revolution Bar in Reading kindly let us come along for a couple of hours to use the interior as a location.

One of the walls in the bar had some handwritten adverts for vodka flavours  and I thought Lex would look good in front of it but with the text blurred so he popped out from the background.

I have put up a colour version of an image with a bit of retouching work done to it and a mono image just to show the difference, I find myself getting drawn to black and white more and more for this type of work but I have to be mindful the client would also want colour versions.

Lighting was very simple, one flash on a stand through a small softbox on camera right which gave some nice shadows to the side of Lex's face.

We utilised most areas of the bar for a variety of shots that Lex can use for his EP artwork and online use.