Portraits: Four Year Strong

Portraits: For Year Strong, Warped Tour 2010

As one of the last sets of the day, we caught up with Four Year Strong at Warped Tour as part of our portrait series. By the time we set up with the 5-piece from Massachusetts, the sun was low enough in the sky to create a little drama in the clouds.

Portraits: For Year Strong, Warped Tour 2010

Photographer’s Notes:

This shoot with Four Year Strong was a one-light setup. The keylight here was a Profoto AcuteB head fired through a 3? Creative Light Octabox. The softbox was mounted on a carbon fiber monopod, which gives some great flexibility for these sorts of location shoots.

Lighting Gear Used:

Photo Gear Used:

End Notes:

What’s better than a band who’s willing to load into a club car at the drop of a hat? As luck would have it, a cart was parked right next to our shoot, so Four Year Strong happily piled in.

Portraits: For Year Strong, Warped Tour 2010

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groovehouse says:

July 13, 2010 at 9:00 am

Haha! Love the golf cart shot! What a great prop!

I’m lovin’ these Warped Tour portraits!

Todd says:

July 14, 2010 at 9:28 am

Thanks for the comment, Groovehouse, glad to hear you’re digging the images. They were a lot of work, but also a lot of fun to shoot.

Jim Milne says:

July 13, 2010 at 12:37 pm

I really dig your choice of bands this year. Four Year Strong are a blast to sing along to.

Great shots and then you get to the gold cart and it’s just suitable for them. Good call.

How you liking the Profoto? Nice to have extra power right?

Jim,

Todd says:

July 14, 2010 at 9:32 am

Hey Jim,

Thanks very much. I’ve seen Four Year Strong on other tours, but missed their live set at Warped since we were shooting all portraits. Fun live set for sure.

The Profoto kit was great. Generally had plenty of light at 600 w/s, and only dialed up to full for a few looks – I think most was down a stop or two during the day.

Blasting away at 600 w/s full would have been enough to use a one to three-stop ND filter. As it was, I used the D3‘s low 1 setting during the day (ISO 100 equivalent down from base ISO 200).