The Maidenhead Festival, X Marks the Rock at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts

I recently covered the 'X Marks the Rock' part of the Maidenhead Festival at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead.
It was a hot night with lots of bands and solo artists playing in three different parts of the venue, i ran between each act getting images for the centre.
There were also artworks on show that had been created by children which had an underwater theme-hence the huge orange octopus on the window image
Each act was fantastic and played to a good crowd, below is a few images from the night....

Ella Martini single artwork

Regular readers of this blog will certainly know Miss Ella Martini by now, as she has made an appearance here a few times all ready,
We got together at the studio to create an image that can be used for her next single release (today!)
Basically it was a pure white background with some tall black boards either side of Ella to stop the light spilling on to her from the background, she was lit with two lights, key light from top camera right and the other was a fill light low camera right. The reason for the fill light was because Ella wore dark clothes and without the fill light the clothes wouldn't have any detail in them on the shadow side.
Below is a favourite image from the day....

Below is the final edited image, converted to black and white. The image was then re drawn by hand to produce the final image at the bottom, it just goes to show that sometimes the photographic image may not be the final image that is used.

Ella's new tune, 'Dealing with this' will be released on iTunes on Monday 18th August
You can order it from her site at http://www.ellamartini.com//