...a plethora of creative nonsense...
This overarching project blends my love of electronic and other forms of music with photography, charting the underground clubbing and festival scene in Leeds and further afield. Here I am at the other extreme, working with high-end digital equipment to create images which reproduce the feeling of the clubbing and festival environment through distortion of time and space using irregular perspectives and slow shutter speeds causing visual artifacts such as light trails.
I am available to shoot events as part of this project. Depending on the event, fees are negotiable and may be minimal and on an expenses basis if I think that it will help with this project and I would enjoy the night.
Dance events can be difficult to shoot – often attendees will post blurry and washed out images to social media which does nothing to capture the feel of your event. Similarly getting exciting media shots of DJs and electronic artists can be hard – they don’t jump about as much as guitarists!
I am experienced in this kind of work and produce exciting and vibrant images of your event – getting you the discussion and hits on facebook pages that you need to keep the night in people’s mind and ensure they tell their mates and come again.
Events I have worked with have included Hyde Park Unity Day, Beaverfest, Mush, Sunrise, Remedy, The Beats Bizarre, Lime Tree Festival and Kendal Calling dance tents as well as various gigs around Leeds.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another instalment of the place I shoot most – Remedy at Leeds Beaverworks. I only really have half the night from this one and did not take many shots, as I was very tired and slouched about backstage for quite a while. I was also …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Every year, Beaver Works which is one of the venues I shoot at regularly, hosts a ‘Mad Friday’ party, bringing together many of the events which take place there throughout the year. This year the event fell on my birthday, so I had to go, …
Reading Time: 2 minutes This was an interesting and challenging night. It’s a new night at Beaverworks, where I often shoot and had the interesting set up of a Metal and Alternative night (with live bands) at the top, and a techno night in the basement. There is actually …
Reading Time: 2 minutes For one of the regular nights I shoot at, Remedy, Hallowe’en is the big one where they pull out all the stops to create a crazy and over the top event. I produced nearly 150 images from this event – this is just a small …
Reading Time: 4 minutes …I could price this picture as follows:
Canon EOS 1000D – £399 – I think this was about the price when the model stopped being the current one, obviously it is replaced with the 1100D now…
Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 – £550 – this is what i paid for my copy.
Jessops afd-360c – £79 – got of lightly here, the flashgun is quite a cheap one.
Kood UV filter – £10 – again, very light. I tend to use a cheap filter for protection in clubs as they get covered in smoke and crap very fast.
Batteries – £1.99 – for the flash, from Aldi.
Taxis to and from the venue – £11
Refreshments while working – £20 – beer basically. ok, I might be stretching it a bit now…
Total: £1070.99
I wonder what the girl on the left (who did download this and put it on her page) would say to receiving the bill?
Reading Time: 3 minutes More exploration of the new camera. This is getting fun. I have been playing with the slow sync flash setting which uses a longer exposue, to let in the light of the background and a flash to freeze the subject in the forground. I instantly …
