Portrait Photography: Riffraff

Bez being bez on a boat

Well,what can i say about this abortion of a shoot. Totally went wrong from the start. I hoped to get a portrait of Bez from the Happy Mondays as he was doing a PA at an event i was covering. That part of the night went well and I managed to get some good shots of him letting his hair down so to speak.

Bez had agreed to be in the photo for me as long as it didnt take long, so the plan was to get where I wanted and set everything up and then get him to come in and spend a minute or so doing the shots and he could be on his way back to the party. Never really worked out like that. He was already in the room when i got there so was wanting to get it done and dusted asap. I tried to set everything up with the Pentax medium format camera,metz flash and a background of some blue mood lights. I tried a couple of test shots with my camera to see if it was somewhere near but knew it wasnt exactly what i was looking for. Time ran out and I had to crack on with the few shots I could. After bez had gone i tried to change the film over for a new one and it fell out of my hand in a spiral..The shot below is the only one anywhere near ok,the rest were ruined.

Man bear pig and Bez