Thursday, 3 February 2011

Take That Photos

Many moons ago, it what seemed like a different world, I was asked by my wife if I could take some pictures of a young group of boys in a band that were visiting the school. I asked who they were and she wasn’t too sure but said that they were just starting out and were doing a tour of local schools for promotional work.

I was quite busy at the time (doing what I will never know!!) so I decided to give Alison a spare camera with some film and told her to get whatever she wanted. Don’t forget that Alison is not, never was, or will be a photographer, but I thought a few snaps might suffice.

When Alison returned I asked what they were like, and she was less than complimentary, saying that they were a bit too loud and brash, especially the lead singer!! (what did she know?)

I developed the films and the quality was dreadful!! I mean really dreadful!! I rescued what I could recently with some actions in Photoshop. I can’t complain because I did pass it on.

In the last few days I was asked by another set of young boys (new local band - Sahara) for some promotional photographs. No problem - we arranged a studio shoot initially with a location shoot planned for the future. Now remember that I am not a ‘Band photographer’ and bearing in mind that I had about 20 years between the 2 band shoots- but I quite enjoyed it (although one of the band members did wreck half of the set!!)

The best bit was when I told them -that I hope they were going to be good as the last band we photographed, because the last band was TAKE THAT.

It just goes to show that you never really know what is going to happen or who you are going to photograph or just how well they are going to do in the future.













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