Back in January this year I did the second shoot with my friend and musician of Audio Justice fame, Dan Furr. I didn’t really promote the work at the time as the previous website wasn’t really setup for blogging or anything else, so here we are with a backdated bit of information about the shoot and a few sample pictures.
The first photo shoot we did was done with proper studio lighting, back drops, props and even a stuffed polecat (although the jury is out on that one, both myself and Dan maintain it’s a ferret), for some information and some photos, checkout the entry on audiojustice.com: Picture Show – Audio Justice
Whereas the first shoot was very heavily themed around the album title (House of cards) the second shoot was to be a bit more subtle and shot outside of a studio environment. Myself and Dan talked about a few ideas we had for the shoot (and decided on Cambridge), mainly about the kind of locations we should try and use and a few different posed ideas. In the end though due to lack of time on both of our parts we decided to mainly wing it! Dan bought a boot load of props he’d grabbed on the way out of the door and we set about trying to find some of the locations we’d briefly discussed and to go out and get some extra props in the form of magazines (a copy of the Beano, Chap and some Kung Fu magazine).
We wandered around the streets and parks looking for interesting spots, this ranged from logs, bridges, textured walls and doors. We found various stone walls, nicely worn wooden doors and even a stepped down doorway, all perfect some moodily lit shots!
Ater finishing the walking around part of the day, we returned to the car park where we wanted to do the most ‘posed’ shots of the day with a load of props, unfortunately we’d rather underestimated how busy the car park would be on a Sunday and were forced to use the roof of the car park, dodging the Vectramundanoes we hogged two spaces in the car park, and setup the strobist style lighting I’d bought with me, laid out the props and got snapping. Dan did well posing for the shots given the amount of FREEZING wind that was whipping around the roof, even managing a costume change (having cold hands didn’t seem too bad after that).
Mid way through a security guard turned up to advise us that taking photos in the car park or in the shopping centre wasn’t legal, but we might as well finish up! (for this, we didn’t mention him smoking whilst on duty 
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That was that! We got a bunch of very different images to use, for Dan’s verdict on the shoot check out the page on audiojustice.com: Postcard from Cambridge – Audio Justice
Here’s 4 images taken on the day:
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