Lady Beggars Banquet

Lady Beggars Banquet are a new performance duo that will be hitting London (and the world) very soon. This update features some shots from a TFP shoot I did with LBB a few weeks back. The theme for the main shot was 'after the party', and the girls wanted a cheap, polaroid feel to the images. For the shots with the bear and the clown, we wanted a slightly more sinister feel, so went for desaturated colours and black and white. If the shoot was anything to go by, the girl's live set should be a riot.

The Garden (Part 2)

Images to complement and contrast the previous post; shot at the same time, but edited to create a very different effect.

The Garden (Part 1)

Hungary

This update is unusual - the images were shot whilst on assignment for a client. I don't usually post work from commissions here, but I haven't had much time for updates recently, and wanted to show a few of the visual pleasures that Hungary has to offer. My wife's parents fled Hungary after the failed revolution in 1956, and only returned there a few years ago. It is a place close to my heart, especially right now.

The locations featured are Budapest (including inside Sofitel Hotel, and a shot from the roof), Eger and the Saloc Spa Resort near Eger.

Flowers on the Table

Just what the title says. Nothing about these images was 'set up'. I simply recorded ostensibly mundane scenes in order to present them in a slightly different light.
The blue tone of the first image, although slightly modified in PS, was captured in-camera by setting the white balance to 'tungsten'.
I never shoot black and white in-camera though. Doing so limits your options in two ways:

Firstly, the camera determines how the various colour are rendered into black and white. You can take some control back with filters, but more glass (or plastic) in front of your sensor risks reducing the quality of the image slightly.

Secondly, You might like the image in colour as well as black and white, when you see it on a big screen. Converting images from colour to black and white is easy, but if you discard the colour data in-camera, you cannot get it back.

Blinded

When we took down the curtains and replaced them with blinds the motivation was entirely one of interior design.
I was not in the least bit intrigued by the background and lighting possibilities they might present.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Question is, can you recognise the source text? Answers on a postcard....

Mask

The man of shadows thinks in clay Dreamed trapped thoughts of suffocation day He's seen in iron environments With plastic sweat out of chiselled slits for eyes

From the growth underneath the closed mouth You'll catch if you listen Rack-trapped cubist vowels From a dummy head expression From a dummy head expression

The transformation is invested With the mysterious and the shameful While the thing I am becomes something else Part character part sensation

The shadow is cast (Lyrics: Bauhaus)