Photos of Preacher Muad'dib

Regular readers of Bizarre magazine may have noticed an interview with lawnmower-balancing Irishman Preacher Muad'dib on page 27 of the January issue (including misquotations and spelling errors, of course). In which case they'll also have seen the first of these photos already (even if they failed to put a credit on it).

Preacher gave me a call to say that he needed some publicity shots to go with the interview. Time was a bit tight, as they'd rejected the performance shots, supplied by his agent, at the last minute, and also turned down his offer of turning up at their office so they could take the photos themselves. So a day or so later I grabbed a bag full of gear and headed over to his to sort some shots. There wasn't room for the full studio set-up, so I clamped a black sheet over the backdrop stand to hide the wood-chip, and played with a couple of lighting options. Some of the shots (including the one finally used) were lit by a Speedlite bounced off the ceiling, while those lit from the side used a pair of 64-LED light blocks powered by four AA batteries each (£20 each from 7dayshop.com), although the batteries in one of them were failing a bit, hence the high ISO. With those, the faint reflection on the other side was from the white gloss paint on the door¹. Not my best work, and with more time, space, planning, lighting, equipment (and a working hotshoe extension cord), etc, etc I could have improved on them, but apparently good enough to be used in Bizarre ...

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Main gallery is here.

EDIT: Oops - just spotted that I have in fact been credited - small print, vertically, in the margin of the facing page. Win!²

¹ I could really do with getting a stand for my reflector.
² Even if that makes it look like I might have supplied the photo of the topless French hairdresser. Or possibly the LEGO model of a dissected frog.