Leeds Musician Photography

Wind Farms are popular locations for landscape photographers – the moving turbine blades offer a dynamic feel to the shot, the rigid towers stand out of the ground like huge white trees…. but I’ve not really seen many musician photography shoots at them.

So we went up with Sam, a professional saxophonist, arranger and band leader, to create some new profile shots for him. The sky was initially pretty over cast and grey, which gave us a really moody look – using flash to create dramatic light on Sam and underexposing the background by a stop or 3.

Then it started to change – we initially did some silhouette photographs, followed by some 3-point lighting setups with the sun in the background.

All in all, a great location and proof that even in dull conditions, you can get magic location shots up there, and when the sun comes out… well it’s pretty magical.