REVEAL: More Images

Just a quick post with some more of the images from the REVEAL shoots. Jamie's working on setting up some more shoots, so there'll be plenty more images to follow soon.

Craig

REVEAL: The Images

The last week or so has been busy shooting and editing the images for the featured artists of REVEAL Scotland, and today I attended a meeting up at the Creative Scotland offices in Edinburgh to present the edited images.

Very happy to say they were well received and it looks like between 15 and 25 are going to feature in their magazine coming out at the end of July. Everything from double-page and full page images to quarter page prints. This is by far the largest feature or series of images I've had in print, so to say I'm delighted would be a decent casual understatement!

Anyway, here's a few of the images. I'll add more as the week goes on, but I've been itching to get these online. Hope you like them.

Emma Scott-Smith, a painter from Stirling.

Sarah Caltieri, a singer, musician and actress from Edinburgh

Keith Salmon, an award-winning painter from Irvine

Caroline Bowditch, a dancer and choreographer from Dundee

Robert Softley Gale, an actor from Edinburgh

As I mentioned earlier, there'll be more images coming online over the course of the next week and there's a few more shoots to be done before the end of the month.

Meeting so many other disabled artists has been both exhausting, inspiring and sometimes humbling too. There's people out there who are so passionate about their own particular art or craft and they work so hard at what they're trying to achieve, I actually feel priviliged to have been a part of this, and I can't wait to see them in print.

Craig

REVEAL Update

No new images in this post - just a quick catch up on REVEAL Scotland and the images I've been shooting for them.

Jamie's doing a magazine in the next month or two and asked me to shoot all the featured artists for it, which I'm more than happy to do. On Thursday we met up for the first time and I have to say, he's a sound guy. Lots of fun, easygoing and very motivated too.

Anyway, we met Rosita McKenzie in Edinburgh on Thursday morning and did a few shots around the Scott Monument and then did some motion blur shots in Waverly Station. Fortunately the security persons were kind enough not to boot us out - something we greatly appreciated! After that Jamie and I headed up to meet Robert Gale and we had a pretty quick shoot too. Robert's lots of fun. An actor with cerebral palsy and more personality than a bus full of egomaniacs.

Tomorrow I'm off to Irvine then Glasgow for another couple of photoshoots, and then Wednesday it looks like I'm going to be hitting the Central Scotland, Perth & Dundee areas for another three shoots.

On Thursday the images will be shown to the artists at a meeting at Creative Scotland, and then I'll pop them up here on the blog so you can all see them.

I love being busy, but it's exhausting. Happy exhausting though :)

Craig

Postal Pipe Band Part 4

Here's the last part of the Pipe Band posts.

I was asked to take pictures for the band of the Saluting Officer for the parade, the announcer, and of course the obligatory group shots.

I'd like to thank Jamie, Mike and all the folks from the Band and the Dancers too for letting me take their photographs.

Craig

Postal Pipe Band Part 3

When the idea of shooting the band at the castle first came up I immediately had a specific shot in mind, and that was of the band going out the tunnel onto the esplanade, shot from behind. A whole kinda 'out of the darkness and into the light' kinda thing.

I shot images of the band when they formed up and marched out from inside the gates, and then I was fortunate enough to get up on the battlements of the Castle and take some shots of the performance from above.

Here's a few of the images.

Craig

Postal Pipe Band Part 2

Friday. The thermometer in the car read 34C at one point. Blazing bright sunshine. A good night to be outdoors in Scotland. A bit trickier for photography though, so I knew that I'd have to be working with some high shutter speeds and would have to keep an eye on the shadows while I was shooting.

Anyway, I got up to Edinburgh Castle and wandered inside to meet with the band. I wanted to take a load of shots of them before they went on, and get a few of the dancers too. It turned out to be one of those 'not enough time' moments to get every shot you wanted, and photographically it was a little challenging at times too. Because the sun was quite low it cast a lot of shadow, but it was incredibly bright too, so at one point I found I was using a shutter speed of 1/4000th of a second. I still find it fascinating that parts of my camera go that quick!!!
 

Anyhoo, images. Here they are.

Craig

Postal Pipe Band Part 1

A week or so ago I was contacted by Jamie Starr, the Pipe Major of the Edinburgh Postal Workers Pipe Band. I've known Jay for a while, being in pipe bands myself on and off for twenty years, and he invited me up to Edinburgh Castle where they were putting on a performance for the public. 

I've been looking to photograph a pipe band for a while now, not being able to play any more myself, so I arranged to come down to the band practice the night before the gig and take some shots, and then said I would come up the Castle and do some 'behind-the-scenes' shots of the band there too.

I was delighted to see dancers there too. As soon as I know which school they're from I'll post up a link too.

Here's a few images from the practice session on Thursday night.

Craig