Cassadee Pope of Hey Monday

Hey Monday

Sometimes, all you need is one. At any rate, this single shot of Cassadee Pope of Hey Monday does it for me from the band’s set on the Glamour Kills tour.

Photographer’s Notes:

This was shot at the very end of Hey Monday’s third song, the last photographers were allowed for this set. While the majority of the band’s lighting up until this point had been red backlighting, the end of the third song presented a great opportunity with a bit of nice, white light from the back of the stage.

I was center-stage at the end of the song, and, as luck would have it, so was Cassadee.

This photo was made at 1/50 at ISO 1600 and f/2.8. I used the Nikon D3 and Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 at 50mm for this image.

End Notes:

Some of you may recall that I shot portraits of Hey Monday back when they were touring with The Academy Is and We The Kings – if you haven’t seen them, you can check them out here.

Portraits: Hey Monday

About the author: Todd Owyoung is an internationally published music photographer specializing in concert photography and band portraits. He also grills a mean steak.

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 pm and is filed under Music Photography and tagged with Cassadee Pope, hey monday, music photographer. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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Abby says:

November 23, 2009 at 9:43 pm

I love this shot. Im seeing them tomorrow (with my first photo pass ever!) I hope I can also catch the right lighting :)

Todd says:

November 23, 2009 at 9:59 pm

Hey Abby,

Thanks for the comment. Good luck with the show, hope the lighting tech turns up the lights for a few seconds for you as well.

Corey says:

November 24, 2009 at 7:11 am

love this shot todd … you deff have a feel for being at the right place at the right time good work man

Todd says:

November 24, 2009 at 11:11 am

Hey Corey,

Thanks for the comment. Cassadee was mostly hanging out in a three-meter or so area at the center of the stage, so there’s where I was, too.

Jane says:

November 24, 2009 at 8:53 am

Hey Todd! Love the shot!

I know I didn’t shoot the first two songs but I’d have to agree the lighting was less than ideal and pretty dark, but I will say I always think it’s interesting when we shoot shows together and end up getting the same shot but from 2 different perspectives. You can check out my version of this shot here. I mentioned your shot in the post and gave a link back here so that viewers can see both. None of the others shots I got from the 3rd song really even worked out at 1/60 iso 800 or 1600 with the lighting situation. However, I think this just proves those tiny few seconds were worth capturing! Great work!

Todd says:

November 24, 2009 at 11:20 am

Hi Jane,

Thanks for the comment – I noticed you got into the pit late, but I can say pretty confidently that you didn’t miss too much with regard to the lighting.

My friend Dave also had another perspective of this “finale” moment, too – it’s always interesting to see different views on the one it-moment of a performance.