Photographing South to Cedars

Photographing South to Cedars

Last night Amy and the Peace Pipes played at the Stuff A Truck benefit for Homeless Gear at Pateros Creek. We had the honor of sharing the stage with Aires Attic and South to Cedars.  I managed to snap a few shots during South to Cedars set.

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In all honestly, the lighting was pretty challenging.  Pateros Creek has a great room, but the stage area shares about the same lighting as the rest of the room, with the exception of some flood lights that are covered by transparent colored film.  Pateros also had the (very good) problem of being completely packed for the evening, which limited the angles that I was able to capture images.  South to Cedars put on an amazing show and feature some awesome harmonies by all of their members (they don’t normally had a drummer, they had a guest sit in for the last few songs, so a lot of great singing moments.  In addition, the fiddle was a lot of fun to capture.  It’s not too often that you get to capture tight shots of musicians and their instruments.

As always, all of my band photos can be found on Flickr.  I’d love to hear what you think!

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Photographing Wolfer and Places Back Home

Photographing Wolfer and Places Back Home

A few weeks back Amy and the Peace Pipes played a show at Nixons with Wolfer and Places Back Home. Nixons has a really cool lighting setup on their stage, so I took it as an opportunity to capture a few shots of the other bands.

Ben Sawyer, Wolfer’s lead singer, has an awesome beard that was a lot of fun to shoot while light bounced off of it.

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Places Back Home also had a lot of energy in their performance. They were all over the place while they were on stage, which made capturing “full band” shot a bit of a challenge. They gave me a lot of really cool action moments!

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Blue Mesa at the Downtown Artery

Blue Mesa at the Downtown Artery

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to shoot Blue Mesa when they played with my band at the Downtown Artery.  I was particularly excited for this opportunity as the Artery has a really cool stage layout and lighting displays.  Blue Mesa’s energy made it a lot of fun to shoot, and I was particularly glad that I was able to sneak in through the back to get some drummer shots.  Blue Mesa really put on an awesome show, especially considering that this was their first performance after some major lineup changes! They definitely rocked it and I’m looking forward to playing or shooting them again!

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Vacation Photos

Over Spring Break we took a trip back to Kansas to visit family and spend some time at the Miles Family Farm.  We had a wonderful trip, especially getting a lot of quality time with Clara and capturing some fun moments. Outside of that, I got to tag along and photograph a pasture burn.  I got a lot of practice and towards the end of the burn I felt like I really got things dialed in.  Despite a thorough cleaning, my camera still smells like smoke – but the pictures were definitely worth it.

Here are a few of my favorite ones:

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There are a lot more pictures over at Flickr. We also got some really fun pictures of Clara throughout the week as well, which are also on Flickr.

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Photography Fun: Maternity Photos

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As we’re on the final stretch towards the birth, we’ve been playing with our Nikon D7000 and figuring out how to get decent photos out of it.  Opting to spend money for a newborn photo shoot, we decided to go it alone and take a few maternity photos of Bethany.  Below are some of our favorite ones:

I’m having a lot of fun playing with the various settings, figuring out what makes a good photo, then figuring out how I can best enhance it in post-processing.  While I’ll never be a photographer, I’ve been learning a lot over these last few weeks.