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Heir to the Chrome 2016

denyerec — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 14:29:08 +0000

Heir to the Chrome is an absolutely fantastic competition, organised by M!itch Gibbens and hosted by the glorious Daniel Rosen down in Milton Keynes. I shot the even last year and was enthusiastically invited back for the follow up this year.

There were some familiar faces, and being remembered by the lighting crew helped a bunch in getting some adjustments to the setup made, as well as helping to rig the audio recorder as, in an advancement from last year, I was there to record the performance videos too.

With an assistant on stop & start duty I was free to hunker down just in front of the judges desk and shoot an incredible selection of competitors and guest performances from the likes of Lisette Krol, Charlotte Robinson, Sam King, Sarah Scott and An Dre!

Both the stills coverage and the performance videos were well received, though it turns out we did such a good job of the audio recording that YouTube content blocked almost everything straight away. Such an enormous pain in the neck that you can’t easily manage the rights for distribution of event videos, and something that’s proving to be an ongoing problem when covering events such as these.

You can check out the videos over at the HTTC YouTube Channel.

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Midlands Pole Championships

denyerec — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:38:28 +0000

After seeing the shots from Heir to the Chrome Hannah got in touch with me to see if I could shoot the Midllands Pole Championships in September, of course I said yes, and headed North for the event.

You never know quite what you’re going to get in terms of lighting when you shoot a new event, and the stage setup at MPC was quite a challenge. A couple of large air conditioning units managed to edge themselves into many of the shots, and the venue’s lighting capacity was quite old and not packing much of a punch in terms of brightness. You can see in the before/after below the massaging required to return a semblance of skintone to the images!

Some might approach it with an “Oh well” attitude, but the performers have put in incredible amounts of effort and deserve captures that show them at their best, so once home and into Lightroom the fight with the low lighting begins, massaging what look like quite disappointing shots on the back of the camera into the best it can be.

A really fun day out with some superb performances all round!

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Heir to the Chrome 2015

denyerec — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:44:01 +0000

Poledancing competitions are a tricky one – fast movement combined with typically moody lighting are a real challenge, and timing of shots becomes crucial as you need to catch the moves at their apex to really show off the performers – without the opportunity for a second take.

Needless to say though, when Daniel Rosen (Pole instructor and performer extraordinare) approached me to ask if I'd like to shoot the event stills for the first outing of the new Heir to the Chrome competition I leapt at the chance. Whilst event days are nerve wracking experiences they're also a heap of fun. With the hilarious compere Glory Pearl running the show front of house and Daniel and Mitch backstage managing the venue and performers it was a superb day out, running very smoothly and with fantastic performances from all involved.

Fingers crossed I'm invited back next year as I can't wait to shoot it all again!