The sun. One thing you definitely can’t rely on in this country! So a photographer needs to have plenty of artificial lighting options at hand when taking portrait shots out and about in the great outdoors.
It was a typical overcast, foggy day yesterday when I met up with the young blues rock band Snakewater in Stafford. First port of call was this suitably urban underpass, which I discovered on one of my portrait location recon missions last year – not a pleasant place to hang out, but at least it was out of the wind and very quiet (who in their right mind would use this to cross the road, when there’s a perfectly good pelican crossing above ground?!). Lots of lighting options too.
Led by guitar-legend-in-waiting Bobby Grant, the band are heading into the studio soon to record their first album, and they play frequently around the North West (and elsewhere when they can – there’s a gig coming up at The Musician in Leicester, supporting Fred Zeppelin). Check them out here: http://www.myspace.com/snakewaterband
Is your band in need of some new promo shots (admit it, those old ones look a bit stale don’t they? 
) – get in touch and we’ll sort something out! As I mentioned before, so long as I don’t have to travel too far, then I’m doing band shoots for free at the moment.
