Free Prints Competition

Peter Neill January 21, 2016

On Saturday 23rd January at 9pm UK time I'll be awarding 3 of my followers on Twitter (@ShootTheSound) and 3 of my followers on Instagram (@ShootTheSoundPhotos) with a free print each of any photo in my Portfolio .

To have a chance to win you need to :

1. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram.

2. Use this link to send a tweet.

3. Finally share the post that brought you to this page! :)

I will be picking the winners at random, 3 from Twitter and 3 from Instagram, at 9pm UK time this coming Saturday. The print can be anything up to A3 in size, at the discretion of the winners.

Preview - Stereo Photography with Queen

Peter Neill May 13, 2015

A few months ago I approached Brian May about doing some Stereo Photography at one of the Queen & Adam Lambert Concerts. He was extremely interested, and with his assistance and the assistance of Canon in lending me duplicate camera equipment I shot their show in Liverpool with a Home Made Stereo Photo Rig.

Portfolio 2015

Live and PR Portfolio Showreel

Peter Neill May 8, 2015

Live & PR photography showreel sfeaturing work with Queen, Justin Timberlake, The Script, U2 and many more.

Concert Photography Seminar

Peter Neill April 28, 2015

On the 12th of July 2015 I'll be running a day long seminar aimed at photographers looking to work in the Music Industry. I started working in this field in 2009 and now work directly for many of the worlds most successful Artists, Record Labels and PR firms. Over the course of this day I'll be sharing my knowledge I've gained so far in the music industry, including the following:

Listen, we need to talk.. Backups.

Peter Neill April 23, 2015

Many of us don't backup, its so easy to put off, and the task only gets larger the longer it is left. For me backups are beyond essential and I actually practice double backup, I have a local backup but I want an online one too incase everything is robbed etc.
When I worked for Apple, all the online backup services had free trials for Apple employees, so I tried Crashplan for a month, BackBlaze for another and finally Carbonite.

As you can imagine I have some pretty serious data requirements, with about 5TB needing backing up.

Having tried all three, the factors important to me are : Upload Speed, Ease of Restore, Security and Reliability.
At the end of the 3 months, I in all areas found BackBlaze to be the best service in my opinion and have been using it for 2 years now.
Consistently in my trial (and still do) I would get the highest upload speeds and the easy downloading of selected content is excellent.
You can choose to encrypt your files as they are being uploaded, meaning not even Backblaze staff can read your backups.

Additionally BackBlaze do and publish a lot of research into hard drive reliability, which is encouraging, google for "backblaze blog" and you will find it.

Finally, I pay $5 a month for unlimited space for one computer and unlimited external drives. (Thats how I have 5TB backed up on it). For the external drives, they needed to be plugged in once every 30 days or they disappear off the backup. If you have left them unplugged for 20 days, back blaze start emailing to you remind you to plug them in for a few minutes.
For me its not an issue anyway as they are plugged in all the time. Finally, I do have a local backup too, but only this week, I found that human error on my part 2 weeks ago had deleted 6GB of photos from my drive and my physical backup. Since Backblaze also allows you restore files from within certain time periods as its incremental, I got it back within the hour.
If you want to signup here are two links:

https://secure.backblaze.com/r/00cnev

(the above link credits me as a referral, if you don't want to do that just visit http://BackBlaze.com )

Finally, for those unsure, this is not a sponsored post, just an honest opinion based on my expereince.

Some images from the NSWS album sleeve artwork shoot

Laser Light Album Photoshoot for The Script

Peter Neill February 26, 2015

In summer 2014 I went to the states with The Script for a couple of weeks to capture both live and behind the scenes material. It was a great chance to get a lot of new images that could be used for the tour programme and social media, but also a chance to get creative given that I knew I had the time to try out new things.

Rocky NTi- Photoshoot

Peter Neill February 24, 2015

Rocky is a musician I was introduced to in early 2014. A couple of things struck me right from the start. A) This guys is a very talented guy. B) This man has a good soul. Rocky is one of life's good people and it shows in his music which is both challenging and uplifting.

Nothing But Thieves Tour Promo - How it was made

Peter Neill February 23, 2015

Nothing But Thieves are one of my newer clients and one of the most talented groups I have ever met. I have being doing a mixture of stills and video for them for a while now.

If you watched the above video and thought it was a little "odd" then I'm glad, as the process of making it was a little unusual. What you are seeing is a sequence of 120 still photographs that have being morphed into each other to create a surreal sense of motion.

Sting Video for No Sound Without Silence - The Script - Tour

Peter Neill February 19, 2015

I made this sting quite a while ago for The Script and it was used this evening as part of the start of their UK Tour. (see https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153004807480399 )

It started off as a photo taken in San Diego (see below) in the USA on their 2014 tour with One Republic.

Elbow

Peter Neill February 14, 2015

Had a great time working with Elbow in the Hammersmith Apollo recently! It was the second time I'd worked for them and this time I was afforded a lot more access.

Portrait Shoot - Jimbo Barry

Peter Neill February 12, 2015

Many of those of you whom are fans of The Script will know this man, he is the producer of many of their tracks. Recently I did a photoshoot with him in his studio, this simple shot was both of our favourites. Sometimes, the simple ideas work best!

Whats in the bag and what I do with it..

Peter Neill February 11, 2015

I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to start a new blog. A lot of new blogs start with a post called "Welcome" where some vague promises are uttered about content without anything much following up for a long time. I say this because I've done this myself in the past. Well, no more, my website is now the core part of my online presence, supported by twitter, and as such the primary location for all my content will now be here.