The Upright Animals
Performing at Pageant in a benefit concert for Haiti earthquake victims, the Upright Animals delivered an intense 40-minute set that was a lot of fun to photograph. The Upright Animals are a band I’ve worked with a good deal in the past and it was a pleasure to photograph them again.
Knowing that lighting treatments would [...]
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DIY Beauty Dish Examples: Portraits
You may have seen a tweet or two over the last month about a little project I’ve been working on: building a DIY beauty dish. The full details and how-to on my design are ready to go, but first, here’s a look at a few examples shot with the homebrew light modifier for speedlights.
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Catchflash
A guitar solo at the edge of the stage is just the sort of act that encourages fans to put down their beers and raise up their cameras. No frontlighting? No problem.
You’ve probably seen the effect – a serendipitous contribution of flash in one of your photos from some kind stranger who happened to [...]
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Portaits
I caught up with the guys of The Dillinger Escape Plan on their 2009 tour for a quick portrait shoot. With my newly built DIY beauty dish and two trusty assistants, we banged it out Strobist-style.
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Promos: August Burns Red
Fresh from conquering Vans Warped Tour 2009, Chris and I met up with metalcore sluggers August Burns Red. Naturally, we did it up with wireless flash CLS style for a series of on-location band portraits. All the shooting notes after the jump.
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Preview: Warped Tour Portraits
Hey guys, just a preview of some of the portraits that I did with my brother Chris at Warped Tour. TAT here was one of our favorite groups to work with during the day – the three-piece brought a lot of enthusiasm and energy to the shoots, and we all had a blast.
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Preview: Incubus
July 24, 2009 – One image of Brandon Boyd of Incubus. If you think this shot looks like flash, you’re right – Brandon here is lit almost entirely by flash. But it wasn’t mine.
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Semi Precious Weapons
March 27, 2009 – Fresh from conquering Austin and SXSW, NYC’s own Semi Precious Weapons brought it home for a headlining concert under the big, beautiful lights of Blender Theater at Gramercy.
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Band Promos: Options for Location Lighting
It’s hard to find good help these days.
Speedlights? Monolights? Powerpack setups? So many ways to go strobes, so little time. Let’s talk about options for flash photography on-location shooting band promos.
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Family Force 5
April 15, 2009 – Headlining the AP Tour 2009, Atlanat’s crunkcore kings Family Force 5 brought a raucous dose of crushing riffs, danceable beats, and charged chorus lines that had the pit heaving.
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Portraits: 3OH!3
April 15, 2009 – I met up with Sean and Nat of 3OH!3 on the AP Tour 2009, and the guys were more than happy to throw up a few 3-0-3s for the camera and show you how it’s done.
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Preview: Family Force 5
April 15, 2009 – Derek Mount, a.k.a. Chap Stique, of AP Tour headliners Family Force 5.
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Concert Photography & Red Lights
Seeing red? The red wash may just be the most dreaded treatment to ever grace the stage in the eyes of the concert photographer. Here are some suggestions for dealing with excessive red lighting for gig photography.
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Bring Me The Horizon @ Taste of Chaos
March 11, 2009 – There’s one band to go, but from the way the floor is heaving and the front row is screaming, you’d never know it. As the UK’s Bring Me The Horizon lays down the brutality of breakdowns, death growls, and chugging riffs, the thought occurs that they might not know either.
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Secondhand Serenade
November 14, 2008 – Following Cute Is What We Aim For’s energetic set, Secondhand Serenade closed out the night with a rocking, heartfelt set that had the ladies swooning.
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Tearsheet: Cobra Starship
Alternative Press, #249, January 2009, page 38 – Alternative Press is running a half-page shot of Cobra Starship that I made back in October in their current issue.
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Portraits: Novella
The boys of metalcore band Novella have been making a splash on the scene, from playing Warped Tour to a public beef with The Devil Wears Prada. In between all the notoriety, I caught up with the guys for a photo shoot downtown at a posh hotel.
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Portraits: The Academy Is…
I caught up with indie/pop rockers The Academy Is… on their headlining tour with We The Kings and Hey Monday for a quick portrait session before their show.
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The Upright Animals
October 26, 2008 – This past weekend I did a shoot with The Upright Animals, a great group who I’ve had the pleasure of working with several times in the past. However, in contrast to the live work we’ve done before, the task for this shoot was a set of promos to coincide with the [...]
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One from Tyga
Just one shot for today, from Tyga’s performance in support of Metro Station. I set up one SB-600 speedlight camera left on a speaker stack and triggered it with the Nikon SB-900.
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