Mick Hutson - Case Study

To further my understanding of music photography, I looked at Mick Hutson. He has taken photographs of bands such as Muse, Rolling Stones, U2, Pink Floyd and Coldplay. He mainly works as for Metal Hammer and Q magazine, some of the biggest music magazines around making him one of the best known photographers around.

He does different styles of images for different bands, he will take studio shots, gig pictures, on set, off set and staged photographs with editing afterwards. This is a close up of one of the band members from Motorhead, it is a studio shot. The black and white styling could connote the age of the band and also that they are a metal band because the blak and white is a classic convention of the metal genre. This picture would be best suited for a front cover or a contents page in a magazine.

This image is very different to the studio shot above, this is because the background has been efited in afterwards using programs like photoshop to make high quality lighting and settings, for example the moon in the background is a high quality render which has been added after the shoot. The picture itself is medium shot because you can see his entire body. The lighting connotes the metal genre because it is seen and stereotyped as a dark style of music which is another convention of the metal genre. This style of picture would be well suited for a front cover as it is very eye catching.