Anyway…it was a great show and it was perfect for seeing this band in their natural element.  Should be a great shoot next week.

Rock on!

The rain helped keep everyone cool and looking forward to today’s perfect weather!  If you’ve never made it to Briggs before, or just couldn’t make it out last night, today should be one for the ages!

Hope to see you here…Rock on!

We started off the shoot at The Purple Zebra in Bloomsburg; rooftop to catch the sunset, then inside to make use of Nicole’s kickin digs. Thanks Nicole!

From there we hit up Berwick Brewing Co. for a quick liquid break and a few shots in a tiny room I ran across in the basement. Thanks again to BBC for letting us crash the scene.

We finished the shoot up at the studio on the white wall with some full band and solo stuff. Another great time meeting some interesting and creative people. Thanks guys for making my job easy.

Rock on, and thanks for reading!

First – this was a team effort all the way around.  Jeff H was all about the nerdy support on quite a few fronts…and did some sweet audio engi-rigging as well.  Thanks Jeff.  DanO was both crucial & essential to this video ever getting done.  Without him on board it would have taken months for me to find the time to get the editing.  That, and he knows stuff I can only dream of.  More so, he’s an awesome photographer and rockin image editor.  That definitely pays off when trying to finish the look of a project.  More than most people, DanO sees images from some of the same perspectives I do (and a whole bunch I never think of).

Second – I didn’t go into 2010 thinking I’d be interested at all in shooting music videos.  After a few bands asked if I’d be interested I started realizing that always saying ‘no thanks’ might not be the best answer.  (Hmmm…might be fun?  Probably be an adventure any way you slice it…)  And, Pan.a.ce.a hadn’t ask…so I asked them.  No expectations…let’s just see what happens. I was still in possession of that little handy Panasonic GF-1 on loan from Barry & Cathy Beck.  It shoots 720HD video and kicks out images that rival any camera for quality.  Sweet…camera for shooting, funky little wide angle lens and a super heavy tripod to act as a poor man’s steadycam.  This entire video was shot with a point-n-shoot camera and it worked well for what we asked of it…

Don’t be afraid to try something based on the false limitations you put on yourself, and don’t be afraid to fail.

{this concludes our current brain-purge…back to editing}

Rock on!

This Sunday we’re taking a crew down to Daniel Oz Studio’s in Philadelphia to stretch our creative bones and try some new ideas out.  While I’ve had the opportunity to work with Pan.a.ce.a a number of times covering live shows, we’ve never gotten together for the ‘real deal’ promo images.  So that’s goal number one for this weekend.  Rockin’ out a new series for the guys should be enough; but enough is too cliche…so we’ve set 2 other moderately lofty goals for the shoot as well:

1. Shoot our first music video
2. Live stream the event (and not embarrass ourselves in the process)

I’ve had a number of bands ask me about shooting music videos for them since January of this year…as I’ve never done this I’ve kindly declined more times than I’m starting to feel comfortable with.  Pan.a.ce.a, on the other hand, hasn’t ask, which is why I asked them.  ”We’ll get your new promo images guys, but give me a couple more hours of your time, and let’s shoot a music video and see what happens”…that was pretty much my pitch.  They agreed and here we are; trying something new, challenging and exciting.

So, with the video idea agreed to I threw the last curve – “let’s live-stream some of the process of shooting promo images and part of the video shoot.”  Let’s make it something people might want to take a peek at.  The guys were in and we started laying out how we might pull it off.  What follows is a brief timeline of what you can expect to see when you tune in on Sunday:

LIVE FEED SCHED:

12:30-1:00 – Band Radio with slide show of stills
1:00-1:45 – Live feed of promo images
1:45-2:30 – Band Radio
2:30-3:00 – Live with Pan.a.ce.a Q & A
3:00-4:00 – Band Radio
4:00-4:?? - Live feed of first two takes
4:??-?:?? - Band Radio

During the slots listed as ‘Band Radio’ you’ll be seeing slideshow images of the band submitted by friends and fans while listening to the entire Pan.a.ce.a discography.  This is were Pan.a.ce.a fans can get involved in this production.  While the guys have a pile of images to work with for these slide shows, the more the better.  If you have any shots of the band handy feel free to post them to the bands Facebook Fanpage.  We’ll take them from there and incorporate them into the feed.  It’s a great way to BE part of the day. The breaks from the live feed also give us a chance to make changes and do the boring stuff that goes on behind the scenes.  So, from 12:30-some time after 4pm on Sunday you’ll be able to tune in and watch the goings on.

We’ll be getting more info out over the next couple of days with the address of live feed – it’ll be a few places and we’ll make sure you can find them all.  Following us on Twitter is a good way to stay up on what’s going on during the shoot as well – the studio Twitter account is @StudioDPhoto and you can follow the band at @PanaceaRock.

That’s about it for tonight…thanks for reading and we hope as many of you as can will be tuned in on Sunday.

Rock On!

Another amazing BriggsFest! Thank you to Richard and all the Briggs for rockin a better time every year!

…and to my boy Dan Hess…always bringing the party hard…security be damned! Yahtzee Mutha-F!!k!r!

Lots more shooting to do today! Rock On!

Joey & Jamie’s Vegas mind-melt gave me some time to work up a couple of posts I’ve been wanting to do.  Nooooo, not WHILE in Vegas…you can get a lot done on a 3 hour flight!  Here’s a few from Connie’s most recent modeling shoot.

How much does she ROCK for getting the hair dyed dark just to do this shoot the way I’d pictured it in my head?  Every shoot seems better than the last with her…and that’s a damn good thing!  :D  Once again, thank you Kat for rocking the makeup & general shoot assistance.

And here’s a few from the most recent band promo shoot I’ve had the opportunity to work on.  1 Hot Mess is 1 rad crew of people to have on the opposite end of the lens.  Connie and Kat rocked out the back end of this shoot as well.  When the 3 of us are firing on all cylinders, life is GOOD!  Thank you to everyone involved!

The Berwick Mural Project got underway fully this weekend with the start of Alley Art.  I made it for about an hour and a half of painting, but Connie and a few others put in some spirited 6+ hours of constant painting.  The wall is fully primed and things are moving on that.  It’s cool watching this come together.  Connie has put a tenacious pile of effort and time into making sure this moved forward.  Congrats to my main homie!

This Wednesday night is also the first of the Small Group classes we’re holding in the studio in the coming weeks.  There’s 1 seat left in each of the 3 evenings if anyone is interested.  Connie and I are pretty excited to be doing these.  She gets to host, I get to jibjab about photography all night – it’s like when peanut butter & jelly first hooked up!

Here’s a few band shots from recent…always enjoy working with musicians.  Mixing arts is becoming a new hobby for me I think.

Like these guys do – Rock on!