Halloween 2011 | Guild Girls

Just about everyone knows...Halloween is my favorite holiday. And what better way to celebrate than dressing in and being with the real thing!!!

Some Fire and Rescue Fire Fighters were really wonderful and helped us in setting up this photo shoot and letting us wear their gear. Not to name drop but there were a couple Mike's and a couple Jeff's and a "Jason" dropped by. There may have been some other passer by's but we really have to give a shout out to the Fire Chief for allowing us to do this and the gentlemen that gave up their Friday evening to let a bunch of women take over their night. They were wonderful and polite and we had a BLAST!! I had great assistants and an assistant photographer to take my picture :) The camera was on a tripod and one of the Fire fighters clicked the shutter for the group pictures.


Group Image:
                      1 AB 1600 to far rear left and right  (bare bulb)
                      1 AB 800 bounce off umbrella on camera far right (slightly behind subject)
                      1 AB 800 bounce off umbrella on camera far left (slightly behind subject)
                      1 AB 800 Octabox above on camera right
                         *We had 5 lights total set up.


Individual Images:
                      1 AB 800 bounce off umbrella on camera far right (slightly behind subject)

                      1 AB 800 bounce off umbrella on camera far left (slightly behind subject)
                      1 AB 800 Octabox above on camera right

Camera was on a tripod

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-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