The product was all about great taste, without the guilt, and the client wanted a look that screamed fresh, healthy lifestyles. Contrast Creative managed the entire process form start to finish, from planning the shoot through to placing the ad’s. The shoot was directed by our good friend Matt O’Connor and shot by photographers High Contrast.

The campaign is currently running in a range of popular national women’s magazines such as Grazia and OK and will continue throughout January.

In collaboration with the artist, Fiona, we honed into a specific style for the album artwork, before getting into the studio to bank some solid images that we could use as the back bone of the album visuals. Working with these we created a clean, cohesive design that pulled together all of the necessary copy without making things look too busy.

When it came to social media, we struck upon the idea of using Facebook as a platform from which to sell records. The key to making this work however was finding a way to make to purchasing and distribution process as simple as possible. Our solution to this was to create a custom tab that houses a Flash based console which allows visitors to view album information, listen to sample tracks and purchase either a full album or individual songs with ease. Payment is made via PayPal to keep the entire process as simple and secure as possible. The beauty of this system is that it keeps the artist in full control of their distribution process and sidesteps the fee’s associated through other channels such as iTunes. At the same time, any fans of the artist can quickly and easily preview and purchase the artists music with just a few clicks.

The site is built around the super-flexible WordPress content management system, enabling our client to easily collate and organise content as and when they need to do so. The site also features loads of great photography supplied by our photographic arm High Contrast, which further serves to illustrate the vibrant, intense, passionate training available from Evade Blackbelt School.

We filmed the time-lapse on two stills cameras over the course of a full day of festivities, taking over 14,000 frames which were duly edited down into this concise little video. What’s great about it is the fact that it’s filmed in West Didsbury, by photographers based in West Didsbury, with a soundtrack by a great band called The Gypsies of Bohemia… who just happen to reside in West Didsbury. It’s so neat it’s practically got a bow around it!

Contrast Creative recently contributed a series of images to an exhibition called ‘Hearing Unheard Voices’. The photographs were created in conjunction with Liverpool’s YWCA and show the prejudice that young girls experience when falling pregnant.

The exhibition runs from 13th March to 25th April 2010 at The Public, West Bromich.

A thought provoking set of installations by young people from around the UK and Sandwell. Designed to coincide with UKYouth’s national initiative of the same name to train young people in the skills to campaign for their rights, especially young refugees, carers, homeless and those from other sections of society who do not normally have their voices heard.

Click for more information on the exhibition.

High Contrast provided styling, hair/makeup, photography and retouching. The shoot took place within the exquisite grounds of a country-house hotel in Essex, UK.

The images have been a great success for Triumph, being used in their ‘Into Summer’ catalogue, POS and online.

View more of this campaign on the High Contrast Blog. For more examples, view our fashion photography portfolio.

The concept; smell gas?

The solution was to shoot a range of close-up portraits using people’s noses. The effect is quite striking when seen full size on a billboard.

High Contrast are participating in an online experimental art project called Facity International, and are offering anyone the chance to have their picture taken and be submitted to the project. Male or female, young our old, everyone is welcome to participate!

We only require about 10-15 mins of the participant’s time and for them to visit our office in West Didsbury, Manchester.

The final image will be submitted to Facity, our Facebook page, our own website and possibly a local exhibition. This is a great opportunity to meet us and get yourself noticed among the international fashion and photography communities. Participation is completely free and you will receive a medium-res digital copy of your chosen image.

If you’re interested in taking part, simply drop us an email with the words ‘Interested in Facity‘ in the subject line to shoot@highcontrast.co.uk and we’ll email you further information and a list of available time-slots.

We look forward to hearing from you!