Todays Shoot - Blue Arson

Today was a shoot for a good friend of mine, Nick Burns. Some of the western mass, and some of the Straight Edge HXC crew may remember him from such bands as Chuck Brunswick, Conqueror, and i think he was also in another 3 or 12 bands aside from those.

His newest incarnation is a bit of a departure from the old hardcore.

This band is BRAND NEW so I wanted them to have a few decent images to use in order to build off of.

The name of the band is Blue Arson so I wanted to play with some blues - you can see a small hint of the blue gel behind them.

check them out here
http://www.myspace.com/bluearson

The only tricky part of the shoot was all the dudes on the left (see photo) are bigger dudes and the guy on the right is about a foot and a half shorter and teeny tiny. So we had him stand on a box to bring his head level up to the rest for some shots, which at the time was really funny, but in all, it strengthened the image, alot.














lights = for this shot i used 2 3x4 boxes up high (about 3 feet above them) behind them pointed down and in at a 45 degree angle (thats the light you see on their shoulders). a bare blub with a blue gel behind them pointed at the background for a hint of blue. and a 1x4 softbox boomed above them pointing down (toward their faces - not straight down) for a front/fill.