The Dags

I recently had the chance to try my hand at some group portraits with the aid of some willing subjects, The Dags. This was a far cry from the usual stuff that I get stuck into, but I still managed to get a nice landscape into the shoot (notice the backgrounds).



They wanted a moody look to the shots so I used mostly b&w with the colour shots desaturated a little to take the edge off the colours. The shoot was for their album 'Hold that Thought' so to give the whole thing a concept I decided to try something a little different. The idea was to have four group portraits where only one of the band members was in focus at any one time, the way I accomplished this was to use slightly longer than 'normal' shutter speeds and get three out of four of them to shake their heads during the exposure. This worked pretty well, after having to wait for the light to drop off (so I could achieve the right sort of exposure times; around 1/2 a second). I am not 100% happy with the outcome but I think I have proved the concept at least.



In between taking the group shots I ran around with my trusted 50mm prime getting some individual portraits, while playing around with depth of field (something I don't usually have to contemplate) which turned out to be the better shots from the day in my opinion.



Here is the link to the rest of the shots taken that day.