I rarely take on private commissions but I made the exception this week for guitarist Phil Bradley. He’s a “friend of a friend” so that was one factor, but the main thing that tipped the balance for me was that he looks the part!

We shot in my home studio and it went really well. Over 2 hours we set up 9 different sets and I took over 700 shots. I selected 289 “keepers” - here’s sets 1 to 4 & here’s sets 5 to 9

Phil will choose his favourite 12 & I’ll give them a final polish so he can use them on his website. The images I’ve uploaded so far have all been edited in Lightroom - I only go to Photoshop for competition workups. Lightroom’s sync facility makes it easy to apply edits to batches of photos really quickly. I’d estimate total time to get from 700 photos down to 289 lightly edited and uploaded to my website was around 3 hours. If you’d like to see the techniques I use to get to the keepers there’s a video here

One bonus of this shoot was that Phil actually played whilst we were shooting. Marlies & I really liked his music tbh, so there was lots of dancing while shooting :-)