I have been meaning to start doing more personal shoots with the bands I work with – one on one. Getting personal with Jack Barakat usually means activity + naked = photoshoot. So here is Jack Barakat of All Time Low in a bathtub backstage at Slam Dunk Festival in Wolverhampton. I can’t take all the credit. Jack made the first move.
Soundwave. Finally. I was able to be on Soundwave 2013. What is Soundwave? Well if you live in Australia, you know, if you live anywhere else- day you might not. Some people say it’s their version of Warped Tour, but it’s not, it’s heaps (that’s an Australian term they toss around quite frequently) better. You play 5 shows with 70 or so other bands to 25-55k tickets sold a day. You fly …
This is my fourth time doing these backstage portraits. Whether or not I can do the shoot depends on if the venue 3 white walls, a white ceiling, and a backstage area people actually hang out in. If it doesn’t at least have these, my shoot is going to be difficult. The first three times I did it everything worked out pretty well. I ran into a few problems but …
I haven’t seen the guys in Bring Me The Horizon in forever. It was so good to catch up with them on Soundwave Festival 2013 in Australia. They were one of the few bands playing that I worked with and I would not see again until Warped, so I wanted to take advantage of my time with them. I setup my 580ex in their backstage box and combined it with …
Pierce The Veil is on the cover of Alternative Press magazine this past month. We shot the cover in early December. I was about to type this up in early January, but it is Jan 15th and I am laying in a bunk in Ireland and I know we didn’t do this shoot a week ago haha. Man time is messing with my head. Anyway! Looking back at e-mails, it …
I have been having an absolute blast shooting these portraits on the road. You can check out my previous portrait shoot here. I had been meaning to tackle a portrait series for awhile, something had been holding me back. I finally figured out what it was- my lighting was too complicated. If it takes longer than a few minutes to set up, how will I do it on the fly? …
I headed out on tour with Of Mice & Men this year. These are the same dudes I went to the studio with in early 2011, Warped Tour with in 2011, Warped Tour with in 2012, and tomorrow I will heading to Australia with them. I love photographing them and their music is a great soundtrack for me to shoot along with every night, unlike the book, which is terrible. All I …
Off to Asking Alexandria’s homeland of Europe, or at least closer to their homeland. I boarded a plane in San Diego and had a layover in Newark with a final destination of Dublin. A few things about my tour life are different from everyone else’s in the band/ crew. I travel to and from tours alone. Most bands/ crew meet up somewhere in their country and fly together to the …
Portraits are my favorite. I remember telling someone after this shoot that if these were the only images I got on this tour, I would be okay with that and go home a happy man. I had never really photographed about half of the people in these photographs, so it was exciting to get portraits of them! These are all shot pretty quick, maybe 30 seconds- 3 minute shoots backstage. …
I have been using Nik Software for a few years now. I absolutely love the software and was honored to be able to do this with them. I am not exactly the most experienced person when it comes to interviews, so cut me some slack! But I had fun, and big thanks to Scott Sheppard for being such a solid host. Listen to podcast here
This blog is the conclusion to an earlier post. Just wanted to start this off by saying thank you to everyone and especially to Oli. Mitch was really embedded into the community I work/ live with and for him to just up and die like that- well it effected a lot of people. After he passed I sifted through my old photos and tried to dig up anything I had …
I posted all my images of Asking Alexandria from the Outbreak Tour, however there were a few other bands on the tour as well. Here are some photographs from throughout the tour of As I Lay Dying, Memphis May Fire, and Attila.