For the website www.maytherockbewithyou.com, a couple of years ago now I had the pleasure of talking to one of the rock photographers who has had the biggest influence on me as far as photographers go...
“Even today I try and get things as 99% right as possible. Paul Stanley phoned me up to talk about doing the shoot for his solo album “Live To Win”. I said “Paul have you got a makeup artist you want to use?” and he goes “Neil I don’t need a makeup artist, we are going to get everything retouched afterwards anyways”. I said “Paul don’t you want to start off with the very best possible image to begin with, why fix it in the mix? That’s just not my mentality on how I work, you have to get everything as perfect as possible to start with. When I get hired by an art director, they come to me because they know what I can do and that they will have that much less work and time involved in Photoshop”.
