New shoot: Tera Zarra of Fist Of Dishonor!

AKA Missy Jitsu of Ninja band Fist Of Dishonor. We'd been meaning to do a shoot for weeks, finally got around to it, and a bunch of great stuff happened. Wow. Next time we add a bad guy for simulated combat!

Preparing to gut a screaming opponent, evidently.

Here's one with that cool Photoshop shadow/highlight adjustment, which gives it a kind of vintage poster look.

More Holocene!

One of the Blue Cranes opening bands, who I also can't remember the name of. Anyone?

Update: Bright Red Paper!

Another example of blowing a potentially cool shot by not moving a couple of inches to the left to get the drummer's face in the shot. It's cool anyway, but it bugs me that I can't see the drummer's face.

A rather cool painterly version of the same shot. This is all done in-camera- it's just a slow shutter speed combined with cross-processing.

The bass player. I need to start writing down people's names.

Holocene has cool lighting!

Here are a few more shots from the Blue Cranes' CD release.

I got several cool shots of this saxophonist. What the hell is his name?

Update: Joe Cunningham is the hell is name. A great player!

More fun with lights.

Blue Cranes CD Release at Holocene!

Here's the Blue Cranes doing their CD release party at Holocene. The band was completely rocking! I revisted my blurry art-crap roots by shooting with 400asa Fuji Provia pushed to 1600 and cross-processed. I hadn't been wild about the way the Provia looked when cross-processing- I did it a bunch on the Rome trip, and they mostly came out looking dull- but pushing 2 stops seems to give it the kind of look I like. It helps to be shooting at Holocene, which has a a lot going on with the lighting. I got a lot of stuff from this show, which I'll be posting over the next couple of weeks.

Reed Wallsmith, the alto player, also played great.

I missed this guy's name- he was sitting in with the band for the CD release, and had a nice rocking free-jazz type approach. I believe he plays with the Decemberists.

Bill Athens, sitting in for Keith Brush on bass had a big solo feature that was very nice.

Ji Tanzer, blew my mind with some burning breakbeat shit. More stuff to practice...

Keyboardist Rebecca Sanborn.