{"id":2027,"date":"2012-07-21T11:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2023-07-02T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:13:56","slug":"leeds-musician-photography-on-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/leeds-musician-photography-on-location\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Musician Photography Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Leeds Musician Photography<\/h1>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>Wind Farms are popular locations for landscape photographers &#8211; the moving turbine blades offer a dynamic feel to the shot, the rigid towers stand out of the ground like huge white trees&#8230;. but I&#8217;ve not really seen many musician photography shoots at them.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; using flash to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/creating-depth-understanding-the-importance-of-foreground-middleground-and-background\/\" target=\"_blank\">create dramatic light on Sam and underexposing the background<\/a> by a stop or 3.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n<p>Then it started to change &#8211; we initially did some silhouette photographs, followed by some 3-point lighting setups with the sun in the background.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n<p>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&#8230; well it&#8217;s pretty magical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style>\r\n.lwrp.link-whisper-related-posts{\r\n            \r\n            margin-top: 40px;\nmargin-bottom: 30px;\r\n        }\r\n        .lwrp .lwrp-title{\r\n            \r\n            \r\n        }.lwrp 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