I caught up with The Friday Night Boys on the Glamour Kills Tour for a quick portrait session at the Moonrise Hotel in Saint Louis. We fired up the speedlights and got down with this shoot Strobist style.
Photographer’s Notes:
This set was shot with the Nikon D3 and Nikon SB-900 speedlight as the commander. I shot with one SB-900 and two SB-600s as the remote flashes.
For the first and third shots, the remote SB-900 was fired into a 15″ EZYBox softbox boomed over the band. For the second shot, the SB-900 was fired into a 46″ Photek Softlighter II. A 45″ Photoflex reflector (silver) was used for all three shots as well.
For this type of indoor shooting, Nikon’s wireless flash system of IR triggering really excels. With Nikon’s SD-9 battery pack on the SB-900, recycle times are super fast, even blasting away at full power.
End Notes:
Big thanks to Jessy at Atlantic for setting this up, as well as to all the guys in TFNB for being great subjects. Thanks to Harry at the Moonrise Hotel for allowing us access to such a nice location. Last but not least, thanks to my assistant David Mullis for helping on this portrait shoot.
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Thanks for the walk through Todd – they are some really stellar results!
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it.
Is there another word better than stellar? Because these photos and your work would fall under it. You are my hero.
Hey groovehouse,
You’re really too kind. I’m just on the road. Thanks very much for the feedback.
i love the third shot! it came out really cool!
btw i have the same frontman’s shirt haha :D
Hey Donnie,
Thanks for the comment. Plaid is blowing up in late 2009. I wanted to try something slightly different with the third shot, so I told Chris and Andrew to grab onto the barrel of the 14-24mm.
haha yeah!
i think i m gonna steal that idea! :)
Have fun with it.
Todd,
I love love love the first shot of them, besides the fact that Andrew’s hair looks grey but it’s okay because they were amazing live at the GK tour so that makes up for it. All 3 are amazing shots of them, another amazing photoshot! Keep up the great work :)
Hey Janessa,
Andrew’s hair is pretty much salt and pepper gray – cool look. Thanks for the comment!
I caught up with The Friday Night Boys on the Glamour Kills Tour for some quick portraits, @strobist style: http://bit.ly/84kCSh
Out of the PARK strobist style, with notes!!! @toddowyoung: The Friday Night Boys, Glamour Kills Tour quick portraits: http://bit.ly/84kCSh
Todd,
As usual, great shots! One thing though… in the second photo, there seems to be some distortion on the guy on the left (black leather jacket). Is this intentional?
Thanks and keep up the great work
Hi Doug,
The minor distortion you’re seeing in that shot is due to the focal length – 24mm on the D3 in this case. The focal length was necessary for the sort of perspective distortion I wanted for the singer Andrew in front. Thanks for the comment.