Lights Out Dancing: Concept Photo

One can only imagine the actual feeling of getting a flat tire...let alone in the middle of the night right after you bought a new vehicle and picked up one of the newest member of your band...These guys definitely can relate!!!

The night they picked up Jordan Wark from the airport, just shortly after buying heir new van got a flat tire in the middle of the night on the highway.

Then we strummed upon the idea of making their promo shoot based on their first day together. :)

Lights:
it varies but on the top image two 580 EX II Speedlights
1-on the lead singer (closest person to me) light to upper right-bare
2-on the roup of them by the van to camera far right and above-bare

Check out their music at:
www.myspace.com/lightsoutdancing

Lights Out Dancing: Press Photo

Changes are happening all over the place. One of the biggest changes are to the upbeat pop/rock band everyone has known as "Lights Out Dancing" with the same 5 guys: Ryan, Kyle, Mike, Danny and Scott. The same guys that rock to their tunes on stage and create some awesome n'sync moves and performance everyone loves. However, now you will see that after two years two of the members have gone on to do other hearts desires and two new members have joined.

Don't be disappointed the change may have given them a new image but has only made their sound more magnificent. With a new singer, Jordan, from California and a prodigy of a guitarist, Joel, from Wisconsin the new music will have the same feel and make you wanna jump and dance!

The image you see is not as poppy as you are used to seeing them. This image is mainly for press and the photos to come will be more of the super fun conceptual Lights Out Dancing you are used to!

-How it was shot:

2 speedlights/bare
One to left at front man
One to right far from the camera

Lights Out Dancing-Promos

 

!!!LIGHTS OUT DANCING!!!

It took a whole crap ton of time and collaboration between the band and myself to come up with a creative concept and the time paid off. We started off with roughly 6 ideas and kept mixing and matching them all until we came up with this. Mike and I then spent a day out checking out and looking for locations to photograph and oddly enough we ended up doing this shoot right in the front yard of Scott's parents house.

I used 3 lights.

1- Speed-light to the far left
1-Alien B 800 to far right
1-Alien B 1600 with white reflective umbrella-to camera rear and from above at a 15 degree angle to my subjects left.

We began this shoot a little earlier in the day so that by the time we were finishing the individual images it wouldn't be a black sky. So in order to make the skies almost look like it was the same time of day I did some tweaking in photo-shop so they would have consistency.

Lights Out Dancing is a Powerpop/Pop rock group out of the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This month they just released a new album called "Ever The Optimist". Currently they are touring around the east coast to help promote the amazing new album. If you have a second please check it out at www.myspace.com/lightsoutdancing