Splendour Studio – Day 1
At Splendour in the Grass i had one of the best assignments i’ve ever had – shooting backstage portraits of the bands and artists playing at the festival for FasterLouder. FasterLouder had a tent in the media compound backstage that i set up with a white paper roll and some studio lights (with help from [...]
Operator Please photos
Some pictures from December 2007 of Operator Please that i neglected to post at the time. These were press photos, to refresh the previous photos i did. This time they wanted something a little more sophisticated, less young and ‘cute’. Some shots were done in the studio, with props i hired from Mitchell Road Auction [...]
Operator Please in the studio
Here’s some photos from the archives, Operator Please recording their album Yes Yes Vindictive back in July. It was a rather lush studio set up at The Grove Studios in the countryside near Gosford. Yes Yes Vindictive is out now and the band have several shows before and after they join the Big Day Out [...]
Behind the Scenes with Operator Please
Here’s a look behind the scenes of the music video shoot for Operator Please‘s Crash Tragic. I’ve not spent a lot of time on film sets, so i was surprised at the scope of it all for a relatively simple video. It makes me thankful i just deal in still pictures where there’s not so [...]
Operator Please press photos
Back in February i took press shots for Gold Coast band Operator Please. It was such a fun shoot and the band were a pleasure to spend time with. They’re very young (aged between 16-18) and have that youthful energy and lack of pretention but they’re also very savvy and self aware. Talented musicians too [...]