Marianne Harris

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I know it’s the same weekend as Ghostfest but if you prefer a nice mix of rock, pop and metal get yourself along to Middlesbrough at the end of June for this. Some pretty banging bands!!

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You really should check out the stunning new video by @burytomorrow It’s what you might call fookin’ massive.

It’s pretty cool to see a band that I’ve known for the last 5 years were inevitably going to become huge, actually beginning to realise that. It’s about bloody time! I’m not smug. Much.

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CDs are here, come down to a show next week and grab yourself a copy or order online!

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YES YES YES! 3 Awesome southern UK bands, all in one lovely chunk! Go check them out and come to some shows!

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We have what I suppose you could call a “mini-tour” next week. Four shows to be exact. Palm Reader and Death Of An Artist will be joining us for some of them, as well as supporting Polar on the Friday.

Tuesday 22nd @ The Fat Fox, Southsea - EP Release show (More details).
Wednesday 23rd @ The Fighting Cocks, Kingston (More details).
Thursday 24th @ Unit, Southampton.
Friday 25th @ Finns, Weymouth.

See you there?

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Monday afternoon. @ashestoangels

www.marianneharris.co.uk

marianne@marianneharris.co.uk for bookings/information

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@housefires @deathofanartist @palmreader PORTSMOUTH. You’ve got some fairly good bands in your neck of the woods. Your attendance at smaller local shows leaves a lot to be desired generally. When you could be cited as one of the best little cities in the south on the music scene. Sort it out.

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Our EP launch show is soon to be upon us, two weeks tomorrow as a matter a fact on Tuesday 22nd May. We will be tearing The Fat Fox a new one with support from our mates in Palm Reader (can’t actually read palms), Set Your Sails (don’t actually have a boat), Death of an Artist (no one actually died I hope) and Ruin Everything (who are actually quite good and don’t ruin things at all). Doors are at 7.30pm and and it’s £4 advance (email hello@wearehousefires.co.uk for tickets) or £5 on the door.

We’ll have physical copies of our EP for sale (obvious considering it’s an EP launch show) so come down and celebrate/drink with us. We’ll also be inviting all that can get up to the hill for a Mick’s Monster Burger with us after the show. More details at the Facey B event page.

If you can’t make it, grab a copy of the EP at our online store or get it digitally on Bandcamp and iTunes instead…

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Been asked by a few people about the editing process for this so thought I’d blog it.

The top image is straight off my camera. It’s too bright. And the lighting is all over the place. Usually I’d be quite fussy about that, and had I not forgotten to put my screen brightness back to normal I’m sure I’d have had an easier time editing.

My editing process is always fairly similar, first of all I edited levels, colour spectrums, contrast and exposure.

For this image I then slightly increased the warmth and red/yellow levels, knocked down the dark tones, very slightly upped the contrast and brightness (weirdly), and increased the black levels…something I do 90% of the time in pp.

Next I had to edit the two lovely gents on the right, Jimbo and Sam - if you look at the original you might see that they’re not nearly as bright as the others in the image. I usually sort small areas of irregular lighting using the dodge tool in PS, but whole faces are a different matter. I decided to overexpose the original image even further, til they were as bright as the other 3 lovely gents, resaved that image and reopened it alongside the version I was editing, and cloned their faces back into the image. I’m sure there probably is a less fussy way to do this.

Once happy with colours and levels etc the fine tuning begins. The spot healing tool is the one I use most when editing my images. I’m exceptionally meticulous about skin blemishes and do spend a long time on it. I also cloned out shadows around the nose area, and sorted out the gap in Sam’s fringe. There was also a shadow on Oz’s cheek from Chris’ hat that I part cloned, part spot healed out.

The last thing I did was to run the burn tool over Lee and Jim’s fingers. They’re still too highly exposed.

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