The Wall Live
I really love photographing concerts. Each show is a new set of challenges and I still get a rush when the house lights go down and the stage lights go up. Then there are shows like last night. Let’s call them bucket list shows. Performers that I have always wanted to photograph. Roger Waters was high on that bucket list and I finally got to photograph him last night. It was a stunning show and while there seemed to be a great deal of miscommunication as to shooting times, and positions, the whole...
Camp Freddy are Sharp D...
Week three of the Camp Freddy residency at the Roxy and the rumors of who the guests are fly around the crowd. The one thing we all know for sure is that Frankie Perez will be there since his band is opening the show (and they did a fantastic job). The other guests are still a...
Camp Freddy: Anarchy at...
Week two of the annual Camp Freddy Residency at the Roxy started off with Billy Morrison, Matt Sorum, and Donovan Leitch Jr. on guitar, drums and vocals and joined by Steve Stevens on lead guitar and Chris Wyse on bass. The opening number, Relax was the same as the week before, but...
NIK Software Creative E...
If you don’t own the Nik Software plugins, now is the time to grab them. Nik has put together a special limited production bundle of 3 of their most popular products, Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 2, and HDR Efex Pro into the Nik Creative Efex Collection. There are some...
Night and Low-Light Pho...
I am very happy to announce that my new book, Night and Low-Light Photography, Photo Workshop is about to hit the store shelves. As I write this it is already available as an ebook for the Kindle, iBooks, and the nook and will be shipping from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers...
Camp Freddy rocks the R...
Camp Freddy kicked off their 2011 residency at the Roxy on Friday night and it was a rocker. Camp Freddy is a cover band. They play songs they like and the set list ranges from Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Ozzy Osbourne and even an acoustic Oasis tune. And while the music is really fun...
The Devil Wears Prada C...
Sunday in Los Angeles was the American Music Awards and the MLS finals, both taking place at the LA Live area. I was there but not for those events, instead I was photographing The Devil Wears Prada at the Club Nokia. This show was a blast to shoot. The band looked like they were having...Nikon School
Last weekend I attended the Nikon School: HD-SLR Video Multimedia Workshop and it proved to great weekend of learning and an eye-opening experience. This was a two-day workshop covering the basics; capturing video and audio including, using different types of microphones, interview...
Anthrax Concert Shoot
This was my third time photographing Anthrax in concert and it was the most intimate venue yet. I previously photographed them on the Jaegermeister tour and at the Big 4 and both those shows were great but the show that Anthrax put on in San Diego last Monday night was the best yet. It...
Billy Idol in concert 2...
For the last few years I have been photographing Billy Idol and his band in concert. Luckily they play in Southern California a lot and even in a year where they only played a handful of shows, one of then was down the road at one of my favorite venues. What I wanted to capture was Billy...
Light It, Shoot It, Ret...
Yesterday I spent the day in Los Angeles with Scott Kelby, Brad Moore and a room full of photographers and Photoshop users. I was there for the latest Kelby Training tours; The Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It tour and it was a really fun day. The day is broken into five different...
Tears for Fears
This post is about two separate things. The first is shooting Tears for Fears, the second is using a pre release version of Nik Software Color Efex Pro 4 to add a natural border look to each image. I want to start with the Nik software Color Efex Pro 4. If you read this blog you know that...
