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Beyond The Pale
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I did a shoot with local metal act Beyond The Pale about two years ago. I have grown immensely tired of shooting the heavier bands in old buildings or in front of grafitti, looking serious with crossed arms, frowns and generally trying to be badass. For me, metal has one of the worst photographic visual identities amongst all the many genres of music, so rebranding it has been a great aspiration of mine. Metal is fun. Metal is silly. I love it. So this is my take on it. Beyond the Pale and myself tried something diffferent, something fun and almost comical. What are your thoughts?
Love it. Am a huge metal fan myself (listening to Black Sabbath as I type this). I fully agree with you about the whole taking itself too serious thing. These are great. The first one in particular. fair play to the band too for taking this step.
I really like the processing you have done here. can you go into it a bit to explain what you have done to achieve this ? Also how did you light this, as in how many light did you use ?
Cheers,
Mark S.
Love it. Not sure is it your lighting technique or processing or maybe a bit of both but all you photos I have seen look very impressive the colours look really nice while still not having that over saturated look and the skin has that nice soft natural look. Would love to know how you get these results. Welldone anyway. As all ways super pics.
Another used-to-be-more metal head here! Great stuff! The processing is great, but with the little niggle of it on the left hand side of the first shot, think it’s just too obvious of not being real foam. It’s a bit of an odd idea- a bath full of men :D but I like it as metalers (there is no such word) are crazy anyway! Interested hearing about the lights,yes :)
Great work!Thank you everyone. I’ve had these questions before, so I wrote a little tutorial and behind the scenes for it available here:
But the short version is: one 430Ex through a softbox through the window, one 430ex into a reflective umbrella cross lighting the softbox from outside. The biggest part of the edit was to change the colour of the wall from beige to blue which might explain why the foam looks fake. But I assure you, it was there. Maybe also because it got there from splashing and thrashing that it looks like it was photoshopped in.
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