So late last night, my brain was feeling particularly devoid of creativity. Not a great thing when you are a photographer trying to edit images to perfection!

I felt the need to put all of my current work aside and have a bit of a rampage on photoshop! I decided to have a play around with textures. It's not something that I am normally particularly fond of as it can really change the look and feel of an image. However, last night that was exactly the mood that I was in! I loaded up a few of my music portraits and just let loose. To be honest, I wasn't expecting to create anything half decent, I just needed to have a bit of freedom with something - I am normally constrained to a minimal contrast and white balance adjustment during most of my commissions.

This was one of the images I came up with. A shot of Jon Boden (Bellowhead) taken last year. The sparse background provided the blank canvas that I wanted to really make the textures punch. The blue colouring was a happy accident but I actually quite like it!

I might have to let loose on my images more often!