Just supplied this for The University of Birmingham’s Buzz magazine for the front cover featuring press officer Lucy Hood in her lead roll in Chess the musical, hence the 80’s hair and hopefully a visual nod towards the fantastically 80’s video of Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson singing “I know him so well”, the big number from the show.

I shot it on my Leaf Aptus 65 high end digital back so had to do a few post production to try and give the image that pre digital slightly soft and saturated feel.  I used Alien Skins exposure 2 as a starting point and adjusted things from there.

Heres the other group shot from the Destroyers shoot-very different from the Victorian gents, its a lots of people to get into one shot without it starting to look like a wedding except where the bride and groom have legged it!

I have run the rgb files from my Nikon D3 through Alien skins black & white filter system that replicates a selenium toned print, where the mid tones and blacks have a slight darkish red-brown to them, except I knocked it back a tad.

But I cant make my mind up if I like the cropped landscape image best?

Well yet again its taken me a while after the shoot to manage to post The Destroyers!

The Destroyers are a  Birmingham based Folk band of around 15 strong players, and the first time I saw them perform at this years Gigbeth festival www.gigbeth.com I was blown away by there energy and stage presence.