Oliver Edwards Photography Blog

A few months ago I was involved in a music video with some of my good friends FTO Films and Zeroscale. Zeroscale are a multi discipled design, web and creative sevices company based in London. They are good friends who I grew up with and seem to be able to do just about anything in their industries to a very high standard.

The music video was in a huge old disused barracks in London I went down to shoot behind the scenes and general stills of the band but went early to help with the set build etc. It was great to be surrounded by a load of other young professionals as I nearly allways work on my own or with one or two people to help being a stills photographer.

Please take the time to have a look through the Zeroscale website.

Zeroscale is a West London based Web Design and Creative Media studio that work on projects that span from corporate video, short films and music pro-mos to websites, graphic design and event coverage. We are a young company that pride ourself on our close relationships with all of our clients and our constant pursuit of projects we personally find exciting and engaging.

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Here are some behind the scenes photographs documenting the making of this music video.

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I also did a timelapse of most of the set build

I shot a few photographs for my friend and music producer Graham last week. I have done photographs for him years ago when we lived together in Newport while at Uni. I am always looking for subjects to try out new ideas and experimental lighting setups on so we went down to a bit of disused railway in Bristol to try to make some sort of edgy urban portraits.

This type of photo are not really my strong point and I have never really been required to do this for any job. Which is why I was keen to do them as a personal project for a bit of fun and to learn something new.

They didnt work out the way I was imagining as I was hoping to do something a bit like US band photographers Joey L, Dave Hill and Joel Grimes (Google them) but seeing as I only had two small lights with a softbox and a few grids I struggled get the right lighting for the look I was hoping to achieve.

I really bugs me when I know I could have done better, however I always find that I learn alot more from my mistakes than I do from nailing it. Next time I try some photos in this style they will hopefully be a bit closer to the desired look……..with more time, another light, better modifiers and some gels.