Jemma Dodd Photography

Sunday, 23 November 2014

Pop Punks Not Dead - 16/11/14

New Found Glory are one of my ultimate favourite bands, I first borrowed one of their CDs from a mate in school when I was about 13/14. I then saw them for the first time at the Carling Academy in Birmingham when I was 17. After that first gig I made sure that I went to every tour when they played Birmingham, and I kept this up for a good number of years until one year they skipped out Birmingham. Nottingham was the closest show and the last train back wouldn't give me chance to see any of their set, I was gutted!

Seeing them back in Birmingham and getting to shoot them on their latest tour has definitely made up for it! I am definitely a 'pop-punk kid' and will never get bored of New Found Glory!

I shot this show for Soundscape Magazine, thanks to the lovely Natalie Humphries for sorting this one for me! Here's a few of my favourite shots, the full set is over on my Flickr.

Here's a few shots of one of the support bands Candyhearts! Full set on Flickr

Feature on Soundscape

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Rise Against - Brixton Academy

Since moving to Peterborough the amount of gigs I've shot and been to in general has dropped dramatically. Back in Birmingham I could jump on a bus or drive 20 minutes away and shoot a gig practically every night of the week. Now if I want to go to a decent gig it's a 2 hour drive back to Birmingham or atleast £25 to jump on a train to London. Not quite as easy as it was back in Birmingham, meaning I've hardly shot any gigs this year other than festivals!

That was until this month, when I decided to apply for as much as possible and just go for it! Two weeks ago I jumped on a train to London after work and headed to Brixton Academy to shoot Rise Against for Hit The Floor. Sadly I didn't get to see much of their set as I had to rush back to get my train, but I did get some shots that I'm pretty happy with.

Hit The Floor feature

More images on Flickr

Monday, 3 November 2014

NME Awards 2014

I won the live category of the NME Photography awards!!!

I've been holding back on writing a blog about this from when I originally found out that I'd been shortlisted. In a way I didn't want to jinx anything...but having received confirmation emails and attending the awards, I definitely did win and I still can't believe it! It's so amazing to receive such recognition for my work and it's all very exciting!

This is my winning image, a shot I took of Taylor Jardine of We Are The In Crowd at Hit The Deck Nottingham in 2012.

Here's the printed mag with my image in (October 11th issue)

And my certificate...

and prize...

The awards have also been in the press elsewhere, here's a few links surrounding the event and also some that feature my photo!

NME shortlist

Free Digital edition of NME

NME awards evening

The Independent

In Publishing

Birmingham City University

And finally here's a photo of me accepting my prize from editor Mike Williams and Picture editor Zoe Capstick

(Photo: Jordan Hughes/NME)

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Floating Portrait

I've always wanted to attempt a floating portrait, but I'd never managed to arrange the right type of shoot to try one. Back in August I assisted on a shoot where a floating portrait was created, and then later saw the editing process and completed image. Seeing this process from start to finish made me want to try this even more, and it's such a simple technique that I decided to try and fit one in to an upcoming shoot.

Here is my very first attempt at a floating image, taken while photographing Flutterbydaisy designs.

Model: Eve of Model Students
MUA: Amy Murray
Hair: Curlgasm Hair
Clothing: Flutterbydaisy
Location: The Pit Studio

All images © Jemma Dodd Photography

www.jemmadoddphotography.com

Monday, 29 September 2014

Flutterbydaisy

While shooting at The Pit Studio for Jawbreaker clothing I decided to take advantage of travelling to Nottingham and booking the studio for a full day. I'd been asked by designer Natayna Waybourne (Flutterbydaisy) if I could shoot some of her new dresses. As one of my favourite designers it was a simple answer, I'd also previously photographed some outfits a few years and to date those photos are still some of my favourite.

With this set of images and the location, I aimed to capture a Cinderella theme and show a contrast between young and beautiful and old and derelict.

Models: Eve and Amy of Model Students
MUA: Amy Murray
Hair: Curlgasm Hair
Clothing: Flutterbydaisy
Location: The Pit Studio

All images © Jemma Dodd Photography

www.jemmadoddphotography.com

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Jawbreaker Clothing

Back in August I travelled up to Nottingham to photograph a selection of dresses from Jawbreaker Clothing. The location of the shoot was at The Pit studio, which I would highly recommend to any photographer who wants to shoot at a derelict location that's safe and legal to use!

While the rooms offer some amazing natural light, I still decided to use my off camera flashes set up on triggers.

A selection of images were published in the September issue of Rebelicious magazine which you can read online at http://issuu.com/rebeliciousmagazine/docs/rebelicious_issue25digi

Models: Halo Haynes and Lucie Hickling
MUA: Amy Murray
Hair: Curlgasm Hair
Clothing: Jawbreaker Clothing
Location: The Pit Studio

And here's a few extra images!

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Thursday, 11 September 2014

Leeds Festival 2014 - Sunday

Last but not least is the final set of photos from Sunday at Leeds Festival. Massive thanks again to Hit The Floor for having me shoot this for them! Same next year?!

Lonely The Brave