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General Pants Major Label band photos

Daniel Boud — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:00:18 +0000

Made in Japan

Last month i took photos of three of the bands participating in General Pants Major Label intiative.

They were Made in Japan, Underlights and Guineafowl.

Like some other brands before them, General Pants is getting involved in the music scene and has started a record label to promote unsigned bands. They sign them up for one single and release that with all royalties going back to the band.

I was asked to shoot promo style shots of three of the acts while they were decked out in some clothes from General Pants.

Guineafowl

Underlights

I wanted some consistency across the different bands. So i had two set-ups that were the same – full band lined up on a white wall, then that same white wall, but lit with some coloured gels and playing with shadows.

Guineafowl

Underlights

Made in Japan

After the studio photos i took each band for a wander to get some shots elsewhere.

Underlights

With Underlights we were taking some pictures outside a church in Darlinghurst. I was trying to keep everyone quiet because i feared if someone inside heard us we’d be shoo’d away.

Sure enough, an elderly gent poked his head out the door asking what we were doing. But rather than ask us to leave, he invited us inside.

So we took a couple of shots indoors too.

Underlights

Made in Japan

By the time Made in Japan got to the studio we were running out of time, so rather than leave the studio we just went to the roof for an open air shot.

Guineafowl

For Guineafowl we walked to a nearby children’s playground. By this time it was completely dark and i needed light. My lights need mains power, so we knocked on the door of a house near the park and asked the owner if they minded us borrowing their power for 5 minutes. They kindly agreed, and so there was light.

You can see the photos mixed with some other photos i took that day on the General Pants website.

Parades

Daniel Boud — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:32:07 +0000

Here’s a few snaps of Sydney band Parades.

I bought some flares from a boating supplies store and had Vikki flailing around with them behind the band for these shots.

Parades are touring across Australia in support of their debut album Foreign Tapes.

Photographing The Medics

Daniel Boud — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:19:57 +0000

Something from the archives today with a look at a shoot with young Cairns band The Medics that i did in June 2009.

I’ve been lucky enough to shoot stills on a Foxtel project that’s profiling various indigenous artists, and that’s what took me to the Dreaming Festival last year for several things, including this photo with The Medics.

The video crew were filming the band on a road by a river, and i had a few minutes to drag them away for pictures.

When we got to the location i set up the backdrop and lights with my trusty assistant Elleni.

Testing

The lighting set up was pretty simple and self evident. Two umbrellas, one to white out the backdrop, one to light the band. The power was set to match the daylight.

One thing i’ve learned working on film shoots is that stills is understandably way down the list of priorities. So it was about four hours between the test shot and getting the band in.

Thankfully the weather cleared up nicely in that time. Good for my shots, not so good for the continuity on the film shoot.

More testing. Don't hate me Elleni and Brooke.

The band wander over

I took some pictures of each band member before bringing them all in.

It was feeling a little static so we did a silly shot too.

Then a couple without the backdrop.

If it all gets a bit too serious then getting your talent to jump is a good solution.

And now of course the line-up of the band has changed, so the pictures are out of date and relegated to history.

Sigh.

Cloud Control out-takes

Daniel Boud — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:06:45 +0000

Back in August i had Cloud Control in the studio, and after doing some band photos i thought it would be fun to experiment a little at the end of the session.

I singled out lead singer Alister and asked the make up artist to draw a lightning bolt over his face, like David Bowie’s classic Aladdin Sane album cover.

It’s an homage that’s been paid time and again – from Kate Moss to Lady Gaga.

Check out Cloud Control’s latest single Gold Canary. It’ll get stuck in your head for days.

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