Music Photographers - Simon Pollock

Simon Pollock is one of Londons premier live music photographers; he has photographed a wide range of bands and singers from U2 to The Prodigy to Mcfly. He captures the essence of the music well and gets the lighting to coincide with the band as he captures the image.

The fire in the background creates a good effect as one of the flames has only one single colour at the time the image was captured, the other has both the yellowness and the orange of the flame. It has the traditional look of a photo rock pose as well as the singer has his guitar in the normal place while singing in to the mic.

This photo has a good effect, as it is in black and white the smoke from the background makes it more profound; you can see the spotlights but there is none directly on the singer who seems in his own world with the music. It doesnt have the full bodu of the man with his guitar so they can focus on the face

I like this photo because it is quite simple with the singer on the left side with just a black background. It fits with the singer as he looks to be singing a slow song and if the lighting for the shot had been bright then it would have looked out of place.