Garage Studios

here are a few digital stills from the latest DarkDaze photoshoot at Garage Studios- from midway thru the set-build to the final shoot. All images are from vickeh who kindly documented the day for us…

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You Can see the rest on our Garage Studios Flickr as its taking far too long to upload via wordpress and its meant to be my day off. Hope you like them, thanks again Vickeh, you did a great job… Cheers Kev

So I have included some sketches and the inspiration behind the new shoot from last week at Garage Studios. It has a lot of why I came up with the idea, what its about, although not the story behind the shot, you have to work that out yourselves, and may give you an idea about what goes into a shoot like this. If your looking from college or work, please note that the DD blog isnt always entirely ’safe-for-work’ but its up to you…. Tomorrow we, the GS team, should have some great behind the scenes images shot by Vickeh, and some more Strobist and technical info, including what Matt, Tash and Adam brought to the shoot, and general bits of interest. We kinda hope that instead of finding them a bit boring these posts will inspire you to see that you dont need huge budgets and weeks to pull off work like this, just a bit of imagination and dedication.

We are even thinking of running a course like this if anyones interested, loosely based around the idea, that a group of students, come up with an idea, sketches, sets and over a few workshops construct a shoot from start to finish, on any theme, using our experience along the way. We have a great team here and have a feeling it could be a really different kind of course. If you are interested just drop as an email at info@garage-studios.co.uk

Now here is the link to my blog, remember theres a little bit of flesh on display for those with sensitive eyes… or computers in the middle of the office …
The ideas behind the new shoot

Occasionally in house photographer DarkDaze suggests an idea that lends itself quite neatly to ideas about the creation, depiction and deconstruction of spaces.

The last mammoth shoot at the studio saw the crew and studio community grow to an indomitable force. DD having been commissioned to produce a new image and with a clear direction to push it in, referenced specific lighting from the world of the painted image and films. Compositionally the style was strongly influenced by a favourite of mine (M.Halls); architecture and the perception of space.

Working from sketches and film stills, and further sketches and rough layouts, skilled carpenter/craftsman Laurie Wilson and I were able to start the construction of the largest set yet in Garage Studios. 

To see how we constructed 2 rooms, a dividing wall and all the other components that make this image bigger than most, watch the video below. As you can see after a few hours of running around with nail guns, skill saws and the odd hammer, we were joined on set by a keen and dedicated team including, Avangelist, Nicholas Blake, Ben Petrucci, Emma of Ophelia Fancy and Natasha of  lighting fame.  

 

We’ve been doing a bit of Wedding Photography recently in and around Brighton and Sussex. We ideally like to send two photographers out per wedding and try to do something a bit different.

We’ve done some weddings using Strobist / Off Camera Flash techniques and studio lighting to make the pictures hopefully stand out from other wedding photographers; and to try and give the happy couple something a bit different.

We’re also going to be photographing a wedding using Lomo cameras. We’ve got loads of great ideas for fun shoot set up’s, where the wedding guests get involved in shooting, during the reception.

We haven’t really pushed this side of the business, but we are well aware that its wedding season soon. So if you need a wedding photographer or you know someone who needs some wedding photography done, we’d be more than happy to help.

To discuss your requirements, just click this link to send us an email.

Yep thats right, Brighton’s very own Photography Studio and Training center, Garage Studios makes it all the way to Iraq.

Courtesy of the media and the superb ‘Mikey aka DaSkinnyBlackMan in Iraq”.

Now for those of you who don’t know Mikey is a Marine in the US Marine Corps, and is currently out in Iraq. He is also an amazing photographer and top bloke.

We first became aware of his work though the 365 days self portrait project that ‘the brownhorse’ was doing at the same time as Mikey. Mikeys pictures always stood out of the crowd, as inventive, technically brilliant and always fun. But don’t take our word for it, see for your self:

Mikey aka DaSkinnyBlackMan in Iraq’s flickr stream

Oh and boy that man can jump!!!!!