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Any photographer should watch this. Persevere with it… I feel it’s worth it. Click on the little TV logo to make it fullscreen. If you as a photographer don’t get something out of this, I’ll eat my HAT!
I went and photographed the teenage pop sensation *says in a whisper* McFly last night at the Hammersmith Apollo with Sime. The average age of the crowd was about 16 and 98% girls. That meant for a LOT of screaming. McFly were actually great fun to shoot though. As always with these things, you get 3 songs and then you are shipped out, but they came out firing on all cylinders like that had all just sculled a litre of neat red cordial before coming on stage. They were energetic for sure.
There are loads more up on my stream at Demotix if you fancy a peek at some more.
Something completely different today. Back to shooting some high fashion in a busted up basement. Should be a good shoot… if my ears stop ringing! I’ll no doubt whack some shots of today’s shoot up later. Stay tuned.
Calumet put on an event this evening at their flagship store in London mainly aimed at Photography Assistants. They had representatives from Hasselblad and Profoto and had two Coloramas set up with a bunch of different lighting kit together with tethered H3DII Hasselblads and a pair of Belly Dancers as subjects. Yep, you read right. Belly Dancers!! Was a good chance for everyone to play with some super nice equipment and also for me to corner the UK Profoto Manager and ask him a load of questions.
They also ran a competition inviting attendees to submit their ‘best’ photo (see my post from last week) and after a few hundred (apparently) people submitted, my shot got shortlisted with 19 others to be printed, and hung in their gallery. Hurrah! The overall winner (not me) walked away with £1,000 worth of rental which is a great prize. His portrait was well deserving. It was a stunning shot. I was just happy to have been shortlisted. Couldn’t let the opportunity pass without taking a shot. Big thanks to the hugely talented Andras, my Uni buddy for taking the reins and snapping this one off for me. Not sure why I am tickling my own chin, but there you have it! Was a good night though and it’s inspired me to enter a few more competitions. You gotta be in it to win it!
Despite last year participating in a project that saw me take a self portrait every day for a year, I still find it odd looking at myself on the screen. It’s like an out of body experience. Or it’s like it’s kinda not me. Weird.
The fabulous Sime invited me to go and see some live music a couple of nights ago. A night put on by Rita, aka Fishmouth at the Regal Room in Hammersmith. 3 acts played, the final being this performer, Jarle Bernhoft who was absolutely fantastic! A native of Norway, he played a handful of songs like this and this and tried to leave the stage with no success! He was duly called back by a loud and enthusiastic packed venue to play a couple more.
He is signed to Universal and released an album in 2003 called ‘Ceramik City Chronicles’. It’s a great album, but very polished and quite different to his live stuff. Check his myspace link above for his upcoming dates and if you are anywhere near these venues, I suggest you get yourself along and see Jarle who has talent absolutely oozing out of his pores!
