Monday 24 January 2011

Belated first post of the year...

Many apologies for the coverage gap, it's been a busy couple of months.

First off, look at what I've made: a slideshow of images from the Cervelo Tour of Lombardy article I shot for Pro Cycling back in October.

Cervelo Test Team, Giro Di Lombardia from Tom Simpson on Vimeo.



Next, there was a shoot in December for NME, this was of The Big Pink for their Albums of 2011 issue. Here's what the cover looks like:


Here's what the page looked like:


And here's my favourite image from the shoot:

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These were shot at the Miloco studio in Elephant and Castle where they were recording their second album. The shoot was very short notice, but luckily I live very close by and was able to get there in time. The set up's not very difficult to guess: just the one light in a 60" umbrella, and that's just out of shot (massive light source, right next to the subject = super soft light). The amount of furniture moved to get this background behind them was enormous, pretty much an entire sitting-room's worth, including a massive widescreen CRT television and some platinum discs off the wall (if you look carefully you can see the stains that they've left). Big thanks to the studio assistant who helped me with the shifting of stuff.