Make Sparks, Aberdeen, Live Photos.

Hey everyone,
Last night, I went to Tunnels, in Aberdeen, to take live photos of Make Sparks! Told you I would have something pretty awesome planned right?
Make Sparks are one of the most talented young acts in Scotland at the moment. They currently have two E.P's, so be sure to buy them via the band or online, it's totally worth it.
Onto the show itself...I only managed to catch Make Sparks set if anyone was wondering...but as usual they played an amazing set, and 'Rewind' is still my favourite, but I also do love their Eminem cover.
For the lighting, really, it was typical Tunnels standard, nothing brilliant, and it's definitely not the easiest for a Photographer when you are trying to capture a band, especially when they decide to have an 'alien blue' colour reflected onto the group, but I think I managed to save the photos in the end. I do like a good challenge anyway, what's the point of doing Photography if everything's going to be plain sailing everytime? It's all about learning your strengths and weaknesses.

Anyway, the whole set of photos are online at my Myspace account, please check the links box at the right, and have a look at all of the pictures. Any feedback, good or bad, is welcome. I'd love to know what you think.
Thanks,
Nicola. x

Rock Talk!

Another little bit of press, a piece I have written which is featured in Courier Newspaper's Rock Talk. This time for the 'Love Music Hate Racism' Festival that's going on at Dukes Corner, in Dundee, on Sunday. The piece is mainly about Beautiful By Design and involves a little bit of an old interview with them. Check it out below, if you want to have a read.


And as it says, the festival starts at 1pm, with many other great local acts involved, it's also free entry, so get yourself down to Dukes Corner, it should be a good one. There's also an after party at Soul Nightclub if anyone's interested. Next week I'm off to take some live music photos up in Aberdeen, so be prepared for a major photo update. This band are going to be HUGE very soon, and I've wanted to photograph them since last year!
Can't wait!
Nicola x

N.E.E.T Magazine

Browsing through one of my favourite blogs this morning, I noticed a link to the new N.E.E.T Magazine, September Issue. After looking through some pages, I ended up stumbling across my own face on the Global Fashion page! Slightly scary but totally awesome at the same time, haha.
Check it out for yourselves below, my photo is first in the top row.
If anyone has not heard of N.E.E.T Magazine before, it features new and unique independent artists, and many more. It's such a lovely produced magazine, have a look at it, over at http://www.neetmagazine.com/

I also just wanted to add that I'm sorry my blogs aren't that long lately! I just realised when I looked back at a couple of my first posts I really used to go into some depth. Next time when I post new photographs of a shoot, I will make sure to go into a lot more detail about it!
Thanks.
Nicola x

AdoreVintage.com

I guess this post isn't in any relation to my photography, but it is in relation to me, and probably a good thing as you'll all get to see who is behind the camera for once?! Haha.

I was browsing the internet a few weeks ago and came across my photograph on AdoreVintage.com's 'Inspiring outfits of the Week'. How awesome is that? I also quite like their little comment about what I'm wearing, so nice!
Check it out below (My picture is top right in the first row), or go to http://www.adorevintage.com
Nicola x

Photography Competitions!

I'll start off with the exciting news! A couple of weeks ago, I received a lovely email telling me I had won a Dundee Photography Competition I had entered at the start of July. They really liked both of my photographs I had entered and are going to use them.....I'm not going to reveal what for yet, because I want it to be a surprise!
But I can say, it's gonna be totally awesome, ahh! I can't wait. There's also going to be a launch night for this, I'm not exactly sure who can all go along to the event yet but when I find out more information I'll post it here for you all.

Onto press now! Once again, Courier Newspaper chose my photograph for one of the best in Week 17 in their Photography Competition.
Check it out below!Considering I have only posted one blog in August, and it consisted of only a link to Facebook, I felt like adding in a cheeky photograph of my adventures when I'm not taking music photos. It's cute. Haha!Ta ta for now, and I'm sure more awesome news and photographs soon!
Nicola x

JUDE Magazine features Nicola Sharkey.

JUDE Magazine, recently featured my photography, which you can all have a look at below, or on their lovely website at http://www.judemagazine.com/nicola-sharkey.html
'JUDE Bank' is a part of their website which features creative new talent from Dundee, ranging from Jewellery Artists to Clubnights, and obviously Photographers!
Check it out!

Nicola x

Behind The Scenes.

More photographs from the Airplay competition, with Beautiful By Design, during soundcheck. The main point in this blog post however is that these photos have made me want to try out some more ideas with my Photography. I'm not sure if it's the fact that there's a video camera evident in both pictures, but there's just a complete Behind-the-Scene/Documentary vibe to it, and I want to explore this point of view in Music Photography. Considering my usual style is Live and Promotional.
If any bands are reading and are interested in a few Documentary type shots, please contact me via my contact form on my website, which is http://www.nicolasharkeyphotography.com
Nicola x