Okay, so college is over and aside from looking for a job and in between TrainSpotting rehearsals (more on this very soon) and various other projects (loads more on these soon), I’m slowly but surely catching up on my huge backlog of work.

First up is a couple of promo-shots for session bassist Tanya O’Callaghan, taken all the way back in January (told you I had a huge backlog!). Nothing too complicated, trying to avoid tacky conventional in-your-face promo shots, I’m quite happy with these considering I’ve seen a lot of crusty promo shots lately. Some people seem quite happy confusing nice shots with retarded unflattering snaps!? I for one try my best to make people look good when I take their picture, a point that has been mentioned to me several times over the last few weeks! I mean seriously, imitation is boring. Especially if you can’t do it properly! And now that several readers are thinking “I wonder who he’s talking about?”, several more are thinking “oh, nice burn!” and one in particular is thinking “shit, is he talking about me!?” I leave my rant at that.

This series was taken under a standard household lamp, directing light and adjusting settings so the background darkens out. Spending some time to find “interesting” and “flattering” angles for the shots (final pot-shot, I promise). The shot of the hand and the string was just a test, playing around and testing things out in photoshop. I have several ideas I want to try out, I just wanted to see would they work, they will.

Loads of news, project updates and photos coming very soon.

Disclaimer

The above blog post contains several pot-shots, if you were confused by them then my apologies, I wouldn’t worry about it. If you were offended by them then that’s what you get for being sneaky and uncreative. =P