Anderson pedals is a new business started by James Anderson. He’s creating guitar pedals, and needed imagery for advertising. He has asked me to do product photography, a logo and website work. Starting here:
First attempt on white card with two 50 watt outdoor lights. Camera – Nikon D5000
Failed white balance:
Single parts:
Pedals on ‘shim’-
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The local ska band/collective ‘Bad Transmission’ were playing for Riot Jazz’s after party held in Ulverston’s club, The Sun.
They asked me if I could come to their band practice before hand and take some promotional pictures.
Issues I encountered:
Only 2 out of the 8 strip lights worked, this made keeping a level light balance hard.
Two of the walls were painted “white”, two were painted yellow. White balance was difficult.
It being a ska band, people dance and moved a a lot as they played. Many pictures I took had motion blur.
I thought I was just going at the beginning of the practice to take one group photo and leave, but the band were very preoccupied with the gig they had that evening, so instead I wandered around as they played and took 1 or 2 group pictures while stood precariously on chairs/tables.
Here are the images in colour:
Here are the images in black&white:
These images are now being used on Bad Transmissions facebook page and one was featured in the Evening Mail today (I’ll upload a better picture later):
In relation to my current art project, I would like to involve a few of these images as tried to capture the mood in some of the pictures, which is a main part of my project.
I particularly like this image as Ben is looking at Jenny.
Rowan Borthwick 