Last month I had the pleasure of catching Tyler Ramsey playing a short solo set at the Bohemian Café here in Greenville. Of course, I had my camera ready to fire a few shots and even some video.
Tyler is a very earnest performer, but his mood comes through in his between-song banter.
It’s really tough to catch his eyes, though.
Oh yeah, I mentioned video. Here is “Stay Gone.”
The rest of the photo set can be seen here.
With no less than a handful of friends involved in theatre and film, it was inevitable that I’d start taking headshots for those looking to update their portfolios.
My friend Lisa Justice needed some black and white headshots post-haste, so we went out to falls park last Sunday to keep away from the stuffy studio look.
Now, even though we shot 150+ photos, the ones we chose to use tended to be very similar in pose and composition. We had both warmed up a little bit, gotten loose and were having fun with what we were doing.
We kept a few in color for later use, as well.
Keep in mind, this was the day before it snowed the most it has in 20+ years. We had waited until noon to shoot because the temperature was in the mid-20s all morning, as is still evident from some of the shots we didn’t choose for her portfolio…
She’ll probably kill me for putting these up, but sometimes you have to show what’s behind the smoke and mirrors.
The full set can be seen here.
The other month Nicole Cendrowski of Big Gnome asked me if I could do some business portraits of her and her boss Russ Davis for her new job at Sandler Training. Now, I’m not used to doing “business portraits,” whatever that means. So I told Nicole. She said they asked me because they didn’t want bland, boring corporate-type photos – they wanted something fun. I figured I could handle that. So we went out to ICAR for a decent backdrop and had some fun.
So I started with some generic shots of the two of them together against the rock wall waterfall.
I feel like this next one could be advertising a new Law and Order or something of that nature.
We moved around the corner and got some solo shots of Nicole.
Back in October I got the chance to be an official CMJ photographer. Well, it’s not as glamorous as it seems, but as I love shooting bands, I figured I’d have some fun.
The first band I actually got to shoot was Gold Lake playing Kenny’s Castaway’s.
Then I hopped a train to catch MEN at Santos Party House.
The next night, I spent about 7 hours again at Santos Party House honing my low light skills. First up was Lower Dens.
I’ve been meaning to make a post of bands I shot at the CMJ Music Marathon since I got back a few weeks ago, but I figured I have a ton of old and new band photos from local shows that deserved a little promotion as well. Enjoy.
We Are Now tears it up in a neighborhood basement.
