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.
