Steve Gerrard Photography · Wedding photographer in Birmingham, West Midlands

This is the second shoot I’ve done with Copious.

As often happens with bands, one member left and the photos we did before suddenly become out-of-date, so we met up again on the mean streets of Birmingham one evening and came back with a new set of images.

Check out their Myspace page. They’re a great band.

One of things I enjoy when shooting band portraits is experimenting with the post-production.

Bands tend to book me for an hour’s shoot but in that time I aim to get a variety of images for them that look like they were taken at different times and locations. This hopefully makes for a more professional looking set of images.

Local band Dirty Mindz are a local upcoming rock band who needed some new promo shots and, despite some awful weather, we ended up with a great collection of photos for them.

Here are some of my faves…

Recently I’ve been doing a few more band portraits. I really enjoy the chance to get these kind of shots, sometimes just before or after I shoot the actual gig, as with all the shots here.

Above are local boys, Tomorrow Brings Giants, who played their first ever hometown gig just after this shot was taken.

Next up are another local band, StRANGEtIME, who were runners-up in last year’s Win A Band Photoshoot competition on this blog. As runners-up they won a live shoot, but I wanted to grab a qucik band portrait at the venue too.

Next up are The Swellers from Flint, Michigan, currently gaining plenty of interest, partly thanks to their friend Hayley from Paramore who has been raving about them in interviews for a while.

I was in Nottingham to shoot their gig for Rock Sound mag and managed to collar the band after the show for a quick shot.

By the way, these guys are so nice!!

Lastly, Canadian band, Dead & Divine, are a group I’ve listened to a lot recently so when they stopped off for a small gig in Birmingham I made sure I went down to see them. And shoot them.

Second City Soul are a fantastic covers band playing classic and contemporary soul, funk and R&B.

They contacted me a while ago about doing some new promo photos and last week our schedules finally aligned to allow us to get together for the shoot

Here are a few images from our time together…

This is the second time I’ve done promotional pictures for local metal band Revenant Dead.

Since the last shoot my style has developed and so have my post-processing abilities. I now use better cameras, better lenses and extra lighting on occasion. I knew I wanted to get much better photos this time around and I think we managed it. The band sent me some images from movies such as Inglourious Basterds for inspiration and I tried to give some of the final images that dramatic movie look.

Here are a few of the final images…

Revenant Dead’s new album, Two Evils, is released on 2nd March.

The new issue of Practical Photography is out and I’m pleased to have a double page spread in there featuring a shot I took of Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro.

I also give some tips on shooting live gigs.

Closer to home, My photos of rising stars Delphic are featured in the new Brum Notes mag, with one picture making the cover. Which is nice

Check out Delphic’s album which was released this week. They’re being called the new New Order.

If you pay attention to what certain music mags say, Delphic are gonna be huge in 2010. That all remains to be seen but I have to say I like what I’ve heard so far. Check out their video from Later.. With Jools Holland below.

Local magazine Brum Notes asked if I’d do some shots of the band for their next cover and I was happy to oblige. A 3pm shoot ended up happening after 4pm due to the band’s soundcheck so it was dark outside which killed my original idea for the shoot. I decided to go for something a bit dark and moody instead and here are a few of the results…

They’re lovely lads by the way, so I hope they do go on to big things in the next 12 months

Emalkay is a DJ and producer who has risen to prominence this year with some huge tunes which have been in heavy rotation on Radio 1 amongst others. His tune “When I Look at You” was The Guardian‘s and Zane Lowe‘s Single Of The Week.

On top of that he’s toured the world DJing. His year ends with a huge event at The Custard Factory in Birmingham, where our studio is located.

Emalkay’s management decided the time was right for some new promo shots and so we met up at our studio before heading to the roof of the Custard Factory and then inside the building before finishing on the streets of Digbeth. Here are my faves from the shoot.

Gypsy Pistoleros call themselves “the world’s greatest flamenco rockers”. They list their influences as Motley Crue and Hanoi Rocks but also The Gypsy Kings!

They got in touch with me as they needed some new band portraits so we met up one Friday afternoon at their rehearsal space and, over the course of an hour or two, got some pretty cool shots. Here are a few of my faves…

This last one is probably my favourite from the day.