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.
Nov 19, 2008 | Categories: Portrait Photography | Tags: band, CLS, Cory Lanemen, David Curry, flash, Josh Spohr, live, music, nikon, novella, Portrait Photography, promo, Sam Thomas, Tyler Konersman | 3 Comments »
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.
Nov 13, 2008 | Categories: Portrait Photography | Tags: Adam T. Siska, Andy Mrotek, butcher, CLS, flash, Michael Carden, Michael Guy Chislett, nikon, Portrait Photography, tai, The Academy Is..., william beckett | 15 Comments »
November 2, 2008 – Following performances by The Devil Wears Prada and Saosin that left the stage raw and bleeding, Underoath came out to deliver the final blow of metalcore mayhem.
Nov 11, 2008 | Categories: Music Photography | Tags: 2008, Aaron Gillespie, Christopher Dudley, CLS, flash, Grant Brandell, James Smith, live, metalcore, music photography, nikon, pops, Spencer Chamberlain, Tim McTague, tooth and nail, tour, underoath, wireles | 14 Comments »
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 [...]
Oct 28, 2008 | Categories: Portrait Photography | Tags: band, CLS, flash, live, music, portaits, promo, sb-600, sb-800, sb-900, strobist, the upright animals, wireless | 14 Comments »
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.
Oct 20, 2008 | Categories: Music Photography | Tags: CLS, decaydance, disco balls and blow up dolls, flash, gym class heroes, hip pop, metro station, Music Photography, nikon, pops, rap, speedlights, tour 2008, tyga, young money | 7 Comments »
October 4, 2008 – Returning to the Pageant after a year’s absence, the Upright Animals exploded out of the gate, making it clear to their fans: their faces were about to be rocked.
Oct 05, 2008 | Categories: Music Photography | Tags: CLS, d3, flash, high iso, live, music, Music Photography, nikon, photographer, rock, sb900 | 24 Comments »
Opening for Nas on the Jones Experience Tour, underground hip hop star Talib Kweli delivered a tight set that drew from his deep catalogue, including old standbys like “Get By,” from his debut solo album Quality, and “I Try,” from The Beautiful Struggle.
Sep 09, 2008 | Categories: Music Photography | Tags: 2008, CLS, flash, hip hop, images, live, Music Photography, nas, nikon, photography, rap, talib kweli, tour | 10 Comments »
Go ahead. Ask Paul Wall to show you his grill.
Jun 02, 2008 | Categories: Music Photography | Tags: 2008, fire, flash, grillz, ice, live, Music Photography, paul wall, photographer, photography, rapper, slow sync, tech n9ne, texas, tour | 11 Comments »
Living up to their growing renown as the live show to see, Semi Precious Weapons brought their glam rock party to Cicero’s in a raucous set of silver stiletto boots, spin-kicks, titties, and at least one song about Jesus.
Dec 04, 2007 | Categories: Music Photography | Tags: bands, ciceros, club, cole whittle, flash, images, justin tranter, lighting, live, nyc, off camera, photos, pictures, playback, precious, semi precious weapons, shots, sync cord, tour, venue | 12 Comments »
I’ve added a small portfolio to the static pages, which ended up being a slight challenge since WordPress does not get along with Flash apps as easily as it should. Of course, the image gallery app I wanted to use, AutoViewer by Felix Turner at AirtightInteractive.com, is a slick, Flash-based slideshow, so a workaround was [...]
Jul 25, 2007 | Categories: Music Photography | Tags: airtightinteractive, autoviewer, embed, flash, gallery, iframe, portfolio, simpleviewer, wordpress | 24 Comments »
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