{"id":2091,"date":"2012-08-15T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2012-10-31T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:51:32","slug":"theatre-photography-leeds-twisted-rehearsals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/theatre-photography-leeds-twisted-rehearsals","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Theatre Photography in Leeds…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theatre Rehearsal Photography in Leeds….<\/h1>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

Destination Holbeck…<\/h2>\n

Driving around Holbeck (Leeds) slowly caused a few long, suspicious looks… \u00a0parts used to be the red light district and it’s not improved much in the last few years.<\/p>\n

The road I was after didn’t seem to have a name on it… there were just lock ups and arches with mechanics tinkering away.<\/p>\n

Eventually caving in and asking directions, I find myself outside the venue after all, it just doesn’t look like I expected – HUB it’s called, Holbeck Urban Ballroom I think.<\/p>\n

The job was to get some shots of rehearsals for Chelle and Katie, who run production company\u00a0“<\/a>Twisted Avenue<\/a>” – so went in armed with the strobist kit and camera, not knowing what to expect.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n

Aladdin’s Cave<\/h2>\n

A labyrinthine array of tunnels – with fat, soft sofas, a piano, speakers, costumes, trinkets and a strange little\u00a0chandelier. Very odd. I like it.<\/p>\n

So to the play rehearsals… quick look around the room \u00a0– white walls, black drapes around the\u00a0ceiling, speakers and pipes on the walls, heater on (in the summer – it was boiling!!!), actors in their civvies with the scripts in hand and a few people watching. So it’s just a case of set up and do what the hell you like really – my kinda job; fly on the wall… the decisive moment…. unposed…. candid….<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n

So set the lights up in a few positions through the night, used about every lens<\/a> in the bag, all pretty much wide open to blur away the muddled backgrounds – mixed lighting temperatures giving nice blue rim lighting from one angle, edgy cool faces from another…<\/p>\n

Don’t stop for me folks…. \ud83d\ude42<\/h2>\n

At first you’ve no idea what they’re doing, talking about or where they’re going to look – just as you’re about to get the shot and arm gets in the way, a head turns, a laugh breaks the moment…<\/p>\n

Then you get the jist – you know how the action unfolds as the hone their lines. Get into position for Ellen’s crazed Italian Mama character, quickly move to get Tom and Simon’s scene – change the lights around for Susan’s bits as she’s always looking stage left….<\/p>\n

Sorted – 345 shots in the bag, lots of colour\/contrast\/clarity in lightroom – job done!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Theatre Rehearsal Photography in Leeds…. Destination Holbeck… Driving around Holbeck (Leeds) slowly caused a few long, suspicious looks… \u00a0parts used to be the red light district and it’s not improved much in the last few years. 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