Testimonials for Band Photography

Posted in General on November 3, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

October has been my busiest month for years with Photoshoots, so finally added loads of new testimonials on the BandPhotography homepage.

I really appreciate it when customers (hate to call them that) feed back to me their thoughts of how the shoot went. Means a lot!

Some new photos added to flickr too!

Bye for now! – Simon x

Windows 7 upgrade from Dell bought from PC World

Posted in General on October 27, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

It seems Dell have been having problems on their upgrade site at https://win7.dell.com/ . Dell doesnt seem to recognise service tags – which identify a PC – especially if the Dell has been bought from another reseller such as PC World in the past 6 months or so and their machine was shipped there prior to the windows 7 eligibility upgrade date of June 29th. There are loads of disgruntled Dell users out there who want to update to Windows 7. makes you wish you had an Apple eh!

Dell – surely the date that matters is the date that a customer bought one of your PC’s and not the date you shipped it to a reseller – well duh! Mines was bought on October 1st from PC World and Dell doesnt see my machine as eligible for the upgrade to windows 7.  Check out Dells own forums – lots of unhappy Dell users.

Update: A rather lovely chap called Robert at PC World has intervened after I refered the matter back to them. He knew a guy high up at Dell and had a word or two with him. Robert called me back the next day and said that Dell have resolved the matter. Having said that Robert is posting me a voucher to purchase the upgrade from PC World, so thats Kudos points for them – great customer service. The same cant be said when you pick up the phone and call India ( I mean Dell)

 

Audio Pimps – Pimped

Posted in Digital Photography, Leeds, Music, Music, Bands, Gigs in Leeds, Portraiture on October 23, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

Pop on over to the gallery page to see one of my more recent shots of a band from manchester called the audio pimps – you’d never guess from that name that they are a covers band would you.

Theres 5 of them and my studio just aint big enough so i shot them individually against white and stitched them all together which made for an interesting shot where they are all at their best but not really interacting with each other. A bit like when 2 musicians on either side of the preverbial pond do a duet but never meet.

Excellent bunch of guys to be around and I wish them loads of gigs.

New web design site in Leeds

Posted in General, Leeds, web design with tags , on October 14, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

Just re-designed the web design arm of my multi-million operation lol.
Feel free to check it out at www.webleeds.co.uk and let me know if you need a hand with any web design needs!

Jordan Fox

Posted in General, Leeds, Portraiture, fashion on October 11, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

Heres the latest shots i took of a great bloke called Jordan, it was nice to apply a little light direction and get these.

Starting to really love fashion portraiture, especially when I get animated subjects, give me a shout if you too need any portraits done.

Next generation Tradespace

Posted in General with tags on September 28, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

Looking forward to the next version of BT Tradespace when it comes out.

Have been given a sneak peak of it here: url:  getready.bttradespace.com.

Maybe its a serious contender for many a wordpress user out there who finds eCommerce integration with WordPress a bit of a dark art!

Nicki Rogers album

Posted in Digital Photography, General, Music with tags , , , on September 27, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds
Inside of Nicki Rogers CD

Inside of Nicki Rogers CD

Hi folks, finally finished designing Nicki Rogers new CD album cover, hope you like it. I didnt do the photography, but there was still a lot of Photoshop work, plenty of colouring / texturising etc to get the effect, all layed up nicely for a digipack in Illustrator.

Front and Back cover Nicki Rogers CD

Front and Back cover Nicki Rogers CD

You can also see them here.

New web design site

Posted in General with tags , , on September 15, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

working on the new site to showcase my web design work which goes under the banner of Tojam media, really excited about it and will let you know when its up. It integrates my photography a lot more.

Band Videos in HD

Posted in Digital Photography, General, Leeds, Music, Bands, Gigs in Leeds with tags , , , , , on July 23, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

Thinking about offering a service to bands where i shoot their video in full HD on my Nikon D90. Quality should be quite cinematic rather than ‘video-like’ due to being able to put on a variety of camera lenses and have full control of depth of field etc (unlike on video camcorders)

Is this a service anyone would be interested in, i could do the shooting – one day in the studio, one day on location, and all the editing for under £1000!!

Nicki Rogers album design

Posted in Digital Photography, Music with tags , , , on July 15, 2009 by bandphotographyleeds

Busy working on Nicki’s new album cover design, its looking really good – i didnt do the photos though – cant give away more than that, or indeed what the new material sounds like but if you want to find out more about Nicki who is an amazing singer songwriter you can check out Nicki Rogers here or at Myspace.