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View From My Keys :: 9th March 2013

DerekClarkPhotography.com-DSCF1274It was good to leave the studio rehearsals behind and get back on the road to play to an audience again. DerekClarkPhotography.com-DSCF1261-EditBy the power of Grey Scull or by the power of electricity? Horsing around with a laser before the gig (left) and a fan gets close enough to feel the magic (right).

DerekClarkPhotography.com-DSCF1252Some say he traveled here from the planet Krypton in a mystical craft. Others say he came from Turin in an Alfa Romeo.

View From My Keys :: 29th April 2012

This installment of View From My Keys is based around guitar machine heads. For those that don't know one end of a guitar from another, machine heads are those 6 (in this case) knobs that are used to turn gears, that in turn twist the posts that hold the strings. As the strings are tightened the pitch rises.

From a photography view, these were all shot with the X-Pro1 at 1/60th of a sec at f1.4 and 1600 ISO. I edited the three photos in Lightroom 4 using a split tone preset that I made recently for my wedding photography.

These shots were taken at AM Rehearsasl which is one of the best equipped and spacious studios in Scotland.

View From My Keys :: 18th Feb 2012

When I started playing sax I thought it would be great to just show-up, open my case and play. Fast forward a lot of years and I'm surrounded by a full music shop. Tenor sax, Guitar, 3 synths and 2 FX units. The laptop controls projections on a 7' circular screen.

One hour before showtime and the souncheck begins.

It's easy to see why he was such a successful male model. You might remember him from the Calvin Klein adds?

The gig begins. This is what we see from the stage a lot of the time, the audience is out there, but we see darkness.