Another gig I shot for fun. I think I’ve finally got the hang of shooting in Barfly, if I’m allowed to use flash, which is almost always.

Chains of Hate

Shaped By Fate

Death Before Dishonor

Links

http://www.myspace.com/chainsofhatehct
http://www.myspace.com/shapedbyfate
http://www.myspace.com/deathbeforedishonorbhc

‘Apples’ is a comedy short that I did stills on for a few days last week.

A few pictures, more info to follow I hope!

I shot this gig just for fun… – yes, photography is still fun for me! I started out doing music photography and while I now do a wide range of other work, shooting bands is still one of my favourite things. There’s a mix of excitement, adrenaline and noise that’s hard to beat.

It must be a couple of years since I’ve been to a Lesson No.1 show, and this was a good one. Buffalo Bar is a fitting venue for this sort of show and in this case also a good place to shoot. Because I was working just to please myself I could experiment and do stuff that might be too risky for many magazines to use, so loads of light trails, fisheye lens, multiple exposures, off camera flash and backlights and enough lens flares to satisfy my current Star-Trek-look obsession.

Brown Wings

The Death of Her Money

Ultralyd

Noxagt

Links

http://www.myspace.com/brownwings
http://www.myspace.com/thedeathofhermoney
http://www.myspace.com/ultralydh
http://www.myspace.com/noxagt

An unusual fashion show that took place on 24th April at Cardiff International Pool. I only caught the first half as I had another job in Bristol to go to, but what I saw was quite striking.

The pool had two catwalks setup across it and the models walked across one, crossed over on a small stage at one side, then back across the other gangway. For about 15 minutes as the sun went down the sky outside and the tungsten lights of the show balanced to make the huge glass and metal structure a bath of blue light with models gliding through it.

Unleashed!
Cardiff International Pool.

A couple of months ago I was asked by the theatre company Give It A Name to photograph their production of Heart of Darkness.

The show was very unusual as it was spread over three floors and several hallways and stairways throughout a building that’s also used as a restaurant, club and music venue. The audience was split into two groups who were lead separately around, only coming together for certain scenes. I went to a performance without my camera just to take notes and figure out how to capture it. I ended up shooting staged photos of the cast and also following one performance around the building dressed to fit in with the performers so I wouldn’t distract the audience too much. It was great fun, and the production itself is well worth seeing if it gets another run.

Give It A Name.
10 Feet Tall

This is probably the most bizarre set of music promo shots I’ve ever done. Turns out both myself and Huw did Maths at university and have a common love of visual puns and appreciation of Escher. I managed to slip in a reference to René Magritte in a couple of the photos, and the third image here is in 3D – you’ll need those red-green anaglyph glasses to view it properly.

Huw M on myspace.
Gwymon.

Last night I went to see a friend of a friend’s band play and because I love taking photos AND heavy metal so much I had to photograph them playing. Shooting live music was the very first thing that got me seriously into photography and I still love doing it, especially in a venue I’ve not been before and a band I’ve not shot. However much I think I know about it I can always learn something new to apply – I think the last photo here is the first gig picture I’ve done using both a fisheye lens and off-camera flash.

The band are Nations Decay and the gig was at place called The Vaults in Cirencester. It’s a really cool pub/venue, small but nicely laid out, some interesting lighting and loads of old books and stuffed animals. I think there’s even something that used to be a cat. If I lived closer I think I’d be a regular.

“Tear sheet” is traditionally the term used for a page cut (or torn!) from a print publication to prove that a photo was published.

I have a stack of magazines, booklets, newspapers, prospectuses (prospectii?) and other printed material waiting to be scanned but until I get around to that I thought I’d start with some of my work that been used on the web.

Screen grabs:

Links (in order) to where the images were used:

Photos for the BBC from a gig they put on at Music Box rehearsal rooms in Cardiff. (link)

At the end of 2009 I did two photo sessions with the Automatic, a location shoot for distribution by their PR to the press and a studio session for them to use in their album artwork. The album is now on Amazon with a cover design based on my images. (link)

The main image used by University of Wales, Newport on their “newport:film” facebook group is from a sessions I did for their Art, Media and Design Department. (link)

All the images for Y Fuch Goch’s website. (link)

A shot from a fashion show I covered last year. (link)

Future of The Left from the last set of promo photos I did with them. (link)

Ivan Smagghe DJ’ing in Germany (link)

One of my photos, this one has been sold more than 100 times! (link)

Joe is one of the guy’s behind Kruger magazine. (I’ve only included the photos I took that were on that page, Joe listed a few other photographers’ work.) (link)

My images used in a blog post about the production of ‘Heart of Darkness’ I photographed for the people who put the show on. (link)

I shot this Wedding Fayre at the Manor Parc Hotel back on Feb 6th for Cardiff Life.

I’m getting used to shooting fashion shows, weddings and events so this was a nice mix of the three!