View From My Keys :: 23rd March 2013

Three colour shots from the weekend. Heading to Shetland Islands next, so there should be a wide range of photos on the next View From My Keys in April. Camera info at the bottom of this post.

• Top: X-Pro1, 35mm f1.4, 125th sec, f1.4, 1600 ISO.
• Middle: X-Pro1, 35mm f1.4, 125th sec, f1.4, 1600 ISO.
• Above: X-E1, 18mm f1.4, 60th sec, f2.8, 1600 ISO.

View From My Keys :: 14th March 2013

Here's some shots from last night. Back on the road tomorrow, so maybe more to come on Sunday or Monday. All these shots were taken with the X-Pro1, 35mm f1.4 at 1600 ISO.

View From My Keys :: 9th March 2013

It was good to leave the studio rehearsals behind and get back on the road to play to an audience again. By 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).

Some 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 :: 13th Mar 2012

I like this microphone, but it's never in tune. At least it always gives me good feedback.

I'm not sure if the earplugs are to keep the noise out, or keep the Tinnitus in?

Some say his guitar strings are made from the hair of peruvian children and his favorite chord is an F demented.

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.