Live At The Castle

Bizarrely having recently gone global with my new website www.adamrbrownphoto.com, nice plug there, only last week email correspondence took place with Global Media which resulted in me shooting Live At The Castle, a mini festival in the grounds of Leeds Castle near Maidstone in Kent.

Despite harrowing conditions and some questionable event planning I think it went well and i'm pleased with the results! I also got to photograph The Wanted which, as far as I know, makes at least 60% of the population jealous of me. Apparently.

Just days before I found myself at Somerset House shooting Oasis spin-off Beady Eye. When I was still dreaming of being able to photograph bands of any level I thought to myself that all I wanted was to one day photograph Oasis. Obviously that's not gonna happen any time soon, if at all, but when I was standing there with Liam Gallagher just feet away from me and a camera in my hand I couldn't help but wonder how this had all happened. Here's hoping it continues for many years to come!

Also i've made a new background collage thing for my Twitter page which I am perilously close to 1000 followers. So if you want to get more updates than my terrible ones on here, head over to twitter and follow me @adamrbrownphoto

Eliza Doolittle

Last night I got the chance to photograph the delightful Eliza Doolittle. While i'm happy with the shots I was in no mood to be there as i'd spent the day working dosed up on cold & flu tablets and drinking hot blackcurrant. Needless to say I wasn't best pleased to find at least 10 other photographers plus 2 guys preparing to film the gig.

This may sound silly but I was preparing myself to shoot, whilst feeling ill, for the first time. I assumed that my concentration level would be the same as it had been all day, pretty much non-existent but nonetheless I convinced myself that i'd rather do my best to shoot for 3 songs rather than miss out altogether.

Having got home I decided there was no rush to editing my pictures so sat down to relax and hope i'd feel better. A few hours later I realised I wasn't going to get to sleep any time soon and thought I may as well upload the shots and perhaps have a little look to see if i'd got anything good. Next thing I know it's 3am and i've edited everything i'd selected.

I have no idea what i'll shoot next but as I said on Wednesday I hope it's something soon!

As always follow the links (on the side) to facebook, flickr or my website to check out the results of my saturday night with Eliza.

Interpol & The Pigeon Detectives

I've not posted anything for a little over 2 months now and no one is more angry about that than me.

It's not that I haven't done anything worth talking about but with my website, facebook and twitter to update plus the sending out of images to anyone using them by the time that's all done I usually either don't have the time or just don't want to update something else.

You'll be pleased to know i'm attempting to work (in collaboration) on a new site which will incorporate this/a blog.

I shot The Pigeon Detectives last night, which went a lot better than I expected considering how much the lead singer runs and jumps around.

A couple of weeks ago I also shot Interpol, which I still can't quite believe. It was a bit awkward as despite the small pit the middle of it was sectioned off, I assume it had something to do with the microphones as it was being recorded for XFM. Luckily there weren't too many photographers but it was still pretty crammed. Not that i'm particularly bothered as i'm really pleased with my shots.

Here's hoping it's not too long before I get to shoot something else!

NME Awards Show

Wednesday night I shot the first of the o2 Shepherd's Bush Empire's NME awards shows. Los Campesinos! headlined with GROUPLOVE and Summer Camp supporting.

KT & Slow Club

Despite hoping to get back into this whole photography lark big time I have, for whatever reason, just not managed it. I don't think there has been a time, since I first picked up a camera, where I have shot so little. (Technically that's not true as I can shoot hundreds of frames of some bands, but you know what I mean).

There used to be a time when I could go anywhere with my camera and come back with a nice selection of pictures which i'd look at, be pleased with, show my family and some friends and put them on flickr. But now, it's all changed. It's not that I couldn't take the pictures, i'm not lacking inspiration particularly. I just seem to be finding it easy to ignore. I never thought i'd say "that'd make a good picture" but have no intention of shooting it.

I don't want to sound, well, I don't know really but what i'm thinking is that with the more serious I have taken photography and the more i've tried to push it into becoming my career, the more i've become worried about what I post.

I can shoot a band at 9pm and have a good selection edited before bed but rather than post them straight away I seem to dwell on them and the thing that bothers me is that I don't really know why i'm doing it.

Anyway...

I took some pictures the other day, it'd be nice if some people looked at them. I only saw 3 songs of KT Tunstall but I was not offended by what I heard (that may not sound like a compliment but it really is, doubt it'll make it onto a poster for her album though). Slow Club were...I don't even know. Amazing? Possibly. I would definitely see them again, I would probably consider paying as well (yep, really) and you don't get much of a higher accolade than that, not from me anyway!

Anyway (Part ii)...

KT -

Slow Club -

Cheers

Teenage Fanclub & Veronica Falls

I'm really starting to slack with this but I think that's because I have given myself so many things to update (don't worry, i'll remind you of them all at the end of this post).

So anyway Tuesday night I went to shoot Teenage Fanclub and as I was there early I thought I may as well shoot their support band Veronica Falls! It's the first time i've done a support band as well, I usually only just make it for the main band, but i'm hoping this habit will continue as you never know where things will lead.

That's about all I have to say for now but before I go i'll link you up with all my other exciting pages (as promised) which are spread delightfully over various parts of this internet thing.

Twitter - Facebook - Website - Flickr

Enjoy!

Adam :)

Brett Anderson 22.01.10

I was down at the O(2)ld Shepherd's Bush Empire again on Friday night for the Brett Anderson (the bloke who sings out of Suede).

Got a few shots but it was nowhere near as fruitful as OK Go the week before, at least from my point of view. A lot of the shots I got were too similar to each other to warrant using more than one and he wasn't the most animated of characters.

Still it's all about learning at this stage as it was only my second working gig. Also my first using my 40D, on my first full day of ownership, and as I hadn't had a chance to get to know my new bit of kit I wasn't really expecting much.

I got a few shots that I like though and I felt a bit more confident than I did at the OK Go gig so I have a few positives to take away from it.

I've not got anything planned in the way of a shoot for the next few weeks really so if anyone reading this has any suggestions or are in a band and they want some shoots taken then get in touch via www.adam-brown.co.uk

Peace out.