Gallery Connexion Concert Performances

One of the tasks I have taken on working with Gallery Connexion is photographing music concerts. This has me pumped as I used to do this quite a bit a few years back and it's something I really enjoy. Mainly I like it for two reasons, I really like music, and the images are always compelling to see and challenging to create. Here is the first in what I hope is a long standing, new series of music images. This took place on January 28th, 2012, I will list the band names before each set.

Pirate Soul

The Ray Finkles

Maiden Names

You might notice the contrasty and grainy look of these images. I shot these all without flash at high ISO capturing only the stage light. Personally I believe this adds a great deal of authenticity to capturing the real feeling of the shows. To give you and idea of the settings, the first two were shot at 4000 ISO and the last, which was extremely low light, was 25600 ISO! This is one reason I warming up to digital so much, when I used to shoot bands on film, flash was very necessary to get a good exposer and I had to use expensive 1600 ISO or 3200 ISO film. Now it's just a matter of testing before the show with your camera and reducing the noise in Lightroom. Such an amazing age to live in as a photographer!

-Larry M. Holder

New Model Work

 I'll start my new cycle of updates with a photo shoot I did with two great models Sarah Rennick and Jessica Serrano. Pretty standard as far as my set up goes, I used the same lighting setup for both models for consideration of time constraints, the only downside of the group studio model. Check out the best of the best below.

Sarah

Jessica 

As you can see it was a pretty fun and loose shoot. One other cool thing we tried was a portrait of Sarah under a black light, though it was pretty tough to get a great exposer the effect was pretty neat!

Check back in a hour or so for another update!

-Larry M. Holder

Update

I'm coming off a busy weekend/week, I have a ton of work to post in the next few days. I had been talking about a technique lesson, that is coming, but in the form of a video! Look for lots of pictures in the next few days and look forward to some video very soon.

-Larry M. Holder

More Modelling Via Model Mayhem

I know I said I would talk about technique, but I'm still planning that idea out as far as presentation. Instead, let me just say once again how awesome a resource Model Mayhem is. The shoot below features a model I made contact with from that site, Erin Wilson, and she was great! Since I mass messaged other local models I've increased my work load about 10x and I couldn't be happy about that. I used my standard lighting setup and decided to try a colour combo to produce a sort of purple background, man what I nice colour. The shoot was so good I ended up with a little over 550 shots which edited down to these top 17. hope you enjoy!

I will be working with Erin again in the future, awesome job Erin and thank you.

-Larry M. Holder

Frozen Nature Before Technical Stuff

Before I get to the technical info I thought I'd post some nature shots I did the other day. Nature and landscape for me is more like meditation then work, therefore it's more of the hobby side of my photographic practices. Enjoy these icy images.

-Larry M. Holder

  

Studio Shots - Audrée H. St-Amour

These are some studio shots I did for Audrée H. St-Amour, as you may recall, I shot her work earlier in the year. Much like the shots I'm doing for Bronwen Robbins, I think these process and portraits in the work space are a great way to both document you work and get a great portrait in your element. We did these shots over two days, as the first day I was a little confused on what she wanted and basically focused on the process more then her, my mistake. Still those images are pretty good. Here's my top picks from the first day.

So they're not bad images, but not exactly what she wanted, so here is the second day.

Much better for her needs. In the future when I do this type of shooting I think it will be critical to make a selection of both types of framing to leave more options open for the client. Thanks Audrée for the opportunity! Well, I have a hugely loaded schedule in the next two months and most likely beyond, however before I post more work I'd like to talk a bit on the technical side and show my process for location shooting as of late.

-Larry M. Holder