neil marshall’s ‘centurion’ is out now!
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
Over the last year or two I’ve become quite good friends with Axelle Carolyn through some short films we’ve worked on together, and a couple of modelling sessions she did for me. Axelle is married to Neil Marshall, director of Dog Soldiers, The Descent, and Doomsday, and this month his latest, Centurion, was released. I was lucky enough to be invited onto the set for a day last year where I witnessed numerous unpleasant sword-based deaths being administered by Mr Sam Worthington, and the film is definitely on my ‘Must See In The Cinema’ list.
Anyway, it’s a good excuse to re-post this cracking portrait of Neil that I took last year in the Coronet Cinema in Notting Hill, London. I was actually there to photograph Axelle but Neil fancied a couple of shots too. It’s lit with one SB-800 flash to camera right, with a Lumiquest Softbox III on it. Ideally I’d have liked another flash camera left to give a bit of rim-light kick but we had so very little time in the location.
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