Promotional Images of Percussionist, Holly Madge

Today was all about photographing musician, Holly Madge ... fantastic... I love all this stuff... fantastic opportunity to get all creative and try to do something a bit different! Today was all about Holly Madge... a superb female drummer (www.hollymadge.com). I am very lucky to work with this young lady who has played with The Sugarbabes, Robyn, Katherine Jenkins, Dennis Rollins and perfroming on programmes such as Stricly Come Dancing, Children in Need, GMTV and This Morning. The idea was to create a set of portraits, some of which were musically based and other more lifestyle model portraits. The shoot was organised around the opportunity to shoot some live gig images of Holly playing. Seeing as Holly is so beautiful we (the make up artists, Maddie Austin and I) thought we would take the opportunity to bag a few beauty shots, all shot using one studio light. A few images from the day are included below for your interest! Enjoy!

Master Blasters Band Promotional Images

I went up to Southampton to photograph the Master Blasters (http://www.masterblastersband.co.uk/) a sensational covers band set up to provide top end live music for corporate gigs, weddings and any other such events! This six piece (Jen, JD, Loucas, Chris, Si and Holly) needed images for their shiny new website and for general promotional purposes. We went up to Southampton on the Wednesday night to do a bit of a recce and work out a plan of action for the following night when we had managed to round up all six members for a shoot. Having walked the majority of Southampton's roads we found a cool place to do some backlit pictures - This sort of preparation the night before is absolutely essential ... saves me dragging six band members around the city's darkest corners for hours trying to find the perfect spot! We started off the shoot nice and gently in random car parks and the local park, then did some live gig pictures, finishing off with the backlit images in a random alleyway. With a little assistance from Tommy and Owain we managed to combine a selection of naturally lit images with a few flash lit images.

I thoroughly enjoyed photographing these guys - they are an awesome band playing all the classics - They will blow your socks off! I defy anyone to sit still whilst they are playing!