Why do YOU hate Iwrestedabearonce? - VIDEO

During the last day of the IWABO tour - i had an idea to go and get video of everyone - catching them off guard - asking "why do you HATE Iwrestledabearonce"

here are the results...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJQxTaZod8

Todays Shoot - IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (San Antonio, TX)

Today we are at a club called White Rabbit which has awesome artwork through out it, even a Black Dahlia Murder piece!

I found a spot where there would be alot of color but not overwhelming detail in the art (for to not take away from the band) - and we shot the meet and greet and then did a quick band shoot

For this i just used one boomed dish. I ended up shooting these at F11 to over expose them by mayyyybe a half a stop at the most, I really wanted these shots to be bright and for the artwork to come out a bit in the exposure as well. I was at ISO100 at a 160th

Todays Shoot - IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (Houston, TX)

Todays show was in Houston, and after getting some really sensual, hot photos of The Chariot, I decided to do the meet and greet photos, as well as the photo shoot in the same area

there were some seats in the back of the room against a fake rock wall - i was thinking a more serious shot than the last few days which were all portas and sillyness - something more contrasty, and serious..ish...

Anyhoo - i boomed a dish camera left as i didnt want circular unidirectional halo lighting on this - I wanted to throw it a bit, and get some harsher shadows

These were shot F11 ISO100 at a 160th

Todays Shoot - IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (Austin, TX)

Todays show was at a club called Emos in Austin - there wasnt much around that I wanted to shoot against aside from bright pink porta-pottys

So just after their meet and greet which was also in the same area, we did a quick natural light shot with them in the poopers.

Because the toilets were pink and thinner plastic, light bled through them and gave me a natural, yet stinky, soft box. so I didnt have to over expose to get the members of the band in the actual pooper. These were at 2.8 at ISO100 - at a 350th

Todays Shoot - The Chariot

Back on the Ghostbustour! - I planned on doing a shoot with The Chariot before I left for rock and shock, but ended up doing this in Hell Paso Texas! - it was super nice out, I just wanted to do something quick and simple for the ghostbustour spread, and we ended up having the most amaaaazing sunset happening behind them

I just boomed a dish up and pointed it at more of an angle toward them so their faces would go bright with out losing the clothing and body, but i BLASTED the light to 1/1 and shot at F22 - but at a 30th to really bring in the sunset behind them.




































After shooting that, we did some shots against the wall behind them as there was no more daylight left to use, I turned the light down to 1/8th and turned the dish straight down to get a different feel for these shots.
















































Quick, simple, easy. started the shoot half way through sunset, lasted 5 minutes, and the sun was GONE, but the job got done :)

The Chariot are not only one of the (if not THE) best live bands ever, but they are also some of the best dudes on earth, and it was an honor to spend a month hanging out with these dudes.

also! - the Chariot had an AWESOME photographer out with them named Brian Hall - you can check out his work with them here = http://www.brianhallphotography.net/blog

Cant wait to see these guys again!

Todays Shoot - IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (MA)

HOME SWEET HOME! Worcester, Ma at The Palladium! woo!

for todays shoot, i set up a dish as a main - but didnt boom it - just put it back a bit as a front light - then used two bare parabolic rims behind them - left and right - pointed to their back to not only cut out most of the second stage area around them, but to separate them from it and make them pop out a bit with a halo of light around them.

These were shot at F8 ISO100 160th on the Canon 1DS Mii, 24-70 2.8 L lens.

One thing I did to make the shot less bland was tilting the axis, meaning, I didnt shot it straight on - i tilted my camera left and right to get a more interesting shot, and that technique can either help or completely destroy an image... try it sometime!

Todays Shoot - IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (NY, NY)

Todays show was at the Santos party house (of Andrew WK fame) - and being that there wasnt much room upstairs to do a meet and greet, we found a spot downstairs with a giant mirror ball. it was aweeessssoommmeee.

Most of the shoots I did on this tour, I kept simple, and just used one light for this meet and greet and the shoot afterward

I see some photographers set up 5-8, sometimes even 10 lights to get something you could easily capture with two.... its just unnecessary overkill. Learn how to do everything you can with one light, then everything you can with two lights... three... etc.

Anyway - so i brought a dish up behind me up high so it would light the mirror ball as well as the band, I set it to 50% and made sure the lighting was even on everyone, then started shooting - at F11 ISO100 at a 160th














































I liked this location so much I ended up doing solo shots here as well, the mirror ball was just too epic not to!

Todays Shoot - IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (VA)

While on the mighty Ghostbustour - I ended up doing actual photo sessions with IWABO pretty much every day, every other day, depending on how cool the location was and how much time we had.

Today we were in a club in Richmond, Virginia, we did the meet and greet upstairs, and today was really the first day I decided, hey, lets do a shoot every day, why not? ya know.

So I set up a boomed dish - on tour i had a small beauty dish, which had, just the day before taken a near fatal dive from the light to concrete, but luckily, Bieber saved the day and fixed it.

anyway, boomed dish - 2 bare parabolics behind them - one i pointed away from them and upward to light the environment a bit, the other i had pointed toward them - camera right - a bit to their left to make it less unidirectional, for leading line. I shot these with the 24-70 at F10 at a 160th ISO100 - now these photos ended up with a bit of glare bleed from the dish being smaller than i was used to - so i didnt know to set it properly - but it only really SLIGHTLY effected the vertical shots.

check it!

The Ghostbustour: Pre-tour video

for the next month ill be updating with links to what im doing on the Ghostbustour!

http://theghostbustoursite.com/a-taste-of-whats-to-come/