Birds Of Avalon
I recently photographed local Raleigh band, The Birds of Avalon at the NC Museum of Natural History for the cover of Performer Magazine. The museum was a pretty cool place to shoot with lots of unusual backgrounds. The trick was to keep the images from appearing like a photo of a band on a field trip. A few of the locations within the museum were a challenge to light, particularly the of prehistoric aquarium display, as it was essentially a narrow plexiglass tube that curved around a bend. This limited the placement of lighting and shooting position, as well as the challenge to avoid creating reflections of the lighting rig and/or photographer in the plexiglass.
Here are a few of my favorites.
Indoor Storm
Today, despite still being tired and sore and still recovering from the Pitchfork music Festival, I had a photo shoot of the interior of Indoor Storm, a guitar and music shop in Raleigh NC. This was for Performer Magazine. First, the last thing I really wanted to do today was sling a camera, but I said I could do it so off I went. As I’m driving out to Raleigh, I’m driving into black storm clouds. great. I watch lightning strikes ahead of me for the last 20 minutes of the drive. When I arrive at the shop, I rush to get my gear and everything (had the kiddo in town today) inside the store before the rain started. The staff was so nice. I was in the store for about 2 minutes when the power went out. Now exactly what you hope for when you’re trying to take some photos. So, I chatted and waited and the guys were fun to talk to. The definitely were the nicest guitar shop staff I’ve ever met, so they get a big huge A+ from me 
Bull City Headquarters
Today I headed over to Bull City Headquarters (BCHQ) to shoot a few interior and exterior shots for a feature article in Performer Magazine. BCHQ is an interesting place. Bull City HQ is a cooperatively-run space that hosts a bike co-op, various workshops & skill-shares, some art, and more-or-less weekly shows. Shows generally start right at 9:00, are all-ages, and non-smoking & non-drinking.
It’s a cooperative-run space that hosts various workshops, has a limited art display (and frankly, this could easily be improved with some paint and lighting IMO), weekly music shows, a bike co-op, and serves as a meeting place. It’s an all ages, no smoking and alcohol free space that is pretty much no frills, but fills a need in the community.
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Today I headed over to Raleigh to take a few interior shots of Harry’s Guitar Shop for Performer Magazine. They had a large space and a nice inventory of, well, guitars. And the best part? it is located right around the corner from Peace Camera, one of my favorite camera shops.
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