Archive Photoshoot

I found photos of my dad and his band mate Jim from when he was travelling around the world to places like Australia and New York. He played at gigs around the world and became very popular around the 1980’s. Although his band was popular he still didn’t have much money and got by due the gigs he got and part time jobs on the side; he did this in order to travel to different places. He used to share flats with strangers as he travelled and earned a bed there by doing work fro the people who owned the flat.

Studio Photoshoot

My dad has a music school in St. Helier and on the top floor there is a studio for recording music. I decided to take photos of him playing his guitar as his school is his biggest achievement in life after all his hard work. The contrast between where he came from and what he has now is quite drastic; going from travelling around the world and not having much other than his music to owning a whole school, still gigging and still having his passion for music. He’s been playing the guitar for over 40 years and still loves his guitar as much as he did back then.

In Light Room I selected several images using the rating tool and colouring different images to show which ones I liked the most and which ones I thought were the best quality e.g. green being the best quality and red being the worst, 5/4 stars are photos i like the look of due to their composition or the vibrancy etc and less than 5/4 stars are photos i don’t like the composition of.

I left all the amps in their place in the background as I wanted it to look as natural as possible. I used a macro lens for the close up photos of my Dad’s hands and used flash for a lot of the photos as I thoiught the lighting looked better that way.