World leaders need pictures, too. Follow the link to a great feature on portraits at the United Nations in New York:
Digging through old photos…
I was digging through old photo files, looking for an image that The Recording Academy (the Grammy Awards people) wanted to use. While searching for it, I found a bunch of photos that were either:
a.) terrible to look at now, but I thought were cool way back then.
b.) terrible then and now. Why did I even bother shooting them?!?
c.) still cool after all these years.
I always liked this series of images strung together. It is of the Texas indie band Eisley from 2002. I shot it with my good old Mamiya medium format camera using available light and a small extension tube on the lens. That camera made for some great images. I think these would still hold up today…
I also thought this image below was decent, considering where my skill level was back in 2002. If I shot it today, I wouldn’t throw it away, but I’d definitely feel like I phoned it in. It’s still got a place in my heart, though. And, at least it shows that I didn’t suck back then, but I’ve also grown a lot as a photographer over the years.
It’s not all Rock and Roll…
Dallas just doesn’t have enough music photography to pay all the bills, plain and simple. It makes up a big chunk of my annual income, but I’d be driving a 1980’s Honda Civic and eating Ramen noodles if I ONLY shot music in Dallas. We’d all like to herald the vibrant and talented scene here, and it IS amazing. However, it’s not LA, NY or Nashville.
I bring this up, because you’ll have to diversify in Dallas. Yes, I shoot a lot of music here in Big D, but I also shoot a lot of corporate and PR stuff. And it can be fun, because it gives me some variety. For example, I was recently commissioned to do some shots of a private school during their family day and during a community performance.
These images will most likely be used in brochures and on a website for the school. There wasn’t much rock and roll, but I liked it! Was that a bad pun? Yeah, I know… I’m cheesy like that sometimes. Anyway, enjoy the non-rock side of my shooting…
