Music Photography | Jason Olveira

The images on this post were taken of my friend Jason Olveira as he was performing at the Fox and Firkin in Lewisham. I had photographed Jason before on my digital so I wanted to try something different. So instead of taking the Canon I decided to take a film SLR that I had recently purchased. Which was an Olympus OM-10. A nice film camera that was aperture based. Which means that you set the aperture and it does everything else for you. I was really unsure how the photographs would come out as I was giving up most of the control to the camera.

But nevertheless I picked up some Fujifilm Neopan 800 ASA film and headed out of the house. The gig went really well and two weeks later when I got the film back I was really pleased with the results. They are some of the best gig photos I have taken. As you can see below the camera did it’s job beautifully.

I have included seven photographs with this post. Among the shots that I have included, there are some that were taken on the same night and although they are not music photographs, they are still shots that I took that night that I was proud of.

Portraiture Photography | Matthew Wilcox [Jimmy]

On the same day that we were experimenting with portrait photography in the Bangor University Photographic Society as well as getting some photographs of Rafaela Sakoyianni [which I have included two posts previous on this blog, click here to view them], I recently remembered that I had got some photographs Of Matt Wilcox who is also in the society and went routing for them on my laptop and these are the ones that I found. I used a lightbox for lighting and really enjoyed how the light reflected of the glasses.

When I moved to Bangor I forgot to bring my polarising filters with me. Otherwise I would have used them to really make the reflection on the glasses more prominent. But I suppose that is something to look at if I ever get the chance to recreate these photographs. If that opportunity does pop up I may also try and take these photographs in a real studio setting and make it so there is a slight amount of lights on his face and clothing with the true eye catching point being the glasses and the rest completely pitch black.

In this post I have placed six photographs from the shoot I described above. All the photographs were taken with my Canon EOS 50D with the Canon 50mm f1.8 prime lens. The 50mm f1.8 is the very first autofocus lens I ever owned and it hasn’t failed me yet. The last photo doesn’t really fit with others but I liked it so thought to include it anyhow.

N.B I have a few portrait shoots coming up which will help me fill out this blog a bit and also I am trying to complete a few photographic side projects. I’m trying to make 2010 a busy one.