New and old Otep photos…
Fixed a few images and finished editing other ones….(old as in ones you have seen before).
From my original posting…..
First, the show ROCKED hard, band was great and seemed to not only have a great sense of humor to go along with their creative anarchy, but to just be some great folks to know.
I was lucky enough to be their guest for the show with a photo pass. Did not get me behind the barrier for some safer close up shots. I shot from within the crowd and off to the sides of the stage.
I shot about 90% of the night with manual focus lenses on my DSLR. I have about 200 shots from Tuesday night to edit, but I wanted to get at least one up tonight.
I do NOT use flash during live performance shoots, it is not how the artist intended for you to see them or the show and it takes away from the feel of a live shot most of the time….in my opinion. In the future I want to have some units I can setup to match the lighting being used by the band so I can get some better shutter speeds at lower ISO’s to cut down on the noise/grain.
Sorry guys no autographs this time around, maybe on some prints from this shoot though 
Otep has a standing invitation to come to my studio for a shoot anytime they are in town.
Upcoming show, looking for willing subjects.
I am going to be submitting work for the upcoming Jacks Art Show, a Halloween art show at The Koken Art Factory.
Now we all know I have some dark art to submit, but I would love to have some new and never seen pieces to submit.
Jacks Art Show information:
http://jacksartshow.moonfruit.com/#
Jack the Ripper cordially invites you to submit artwork for his 120th Anniversary Art Show and Party. This will
no doubt be St. Louis’s premiere Halloween Art Show. He is looking for art in all media and styles. Don’t limit
your thinking to just pumpkins and black cats. Jack is open to anything that’s dark, moody, surreal, goth, weird, strange, bizarre, unusual, darkly humorous, or fitting in any way for a Halloween show.
Jack’s Halloween Art Show and Party is a one night event. In addition to fantastic art, there will be food, entertainment and a cash bar. We are also encouraging people to come in costume. It is a Halloween party after all.
Here’s the show details:
Saturday, October 18, 2008. 7pm-1am
Admission is only $2.00.
Koken Art Factory, 2500 Ohio Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63104
So if you feel up to getting dirtied, bloodied or just feel like goofing off for a funny yet Halloween inspired photo session just drop me a note/email.
John Williams
New image of Tracy - Baby Mama
The full Tracy - Baby Mama gallery (so far)
Gas Mask Imagery
Reading an entry on the Dark Roasted Blend blog made me think of some of my gas mask images.
Little Sarah - Pink and Black
Playing in the studio with Little Sarah - First image from the shoot, this would be the Pink part.
Strung Out
Playing in the studio with Amber last night, she wanted to do some ’strung out’ themed shots, not sure if we pulled it off or not, here are some of the results regardless.
4:00 in the morning…
….can’t sleep, in too much pain but the session was worth it, other than have to reschedule a shoot with Little Sarah and Iris Moon.
Here are the first two images from my latest shoot with Amber.
Some of my latest with Iris Moon
It is a good thing I did bump the shoots I had planned for Thursday, I am going to have to wrap my foot from now on I guess. Besides the normal pain a long shoot brings I managed to…..yep you guessed it….I just need a new foot. Must be going up and down the stairs at the studio, right now I would like to just chop it off.
More shots coming…
This is the kind of shots…
..I want to be doing - Loop - I have the studio for it, just need to get the proper setup in the ceiling.
I have so many ideas in my head and I cannot do them, why, they take MONEY. I hate how that is the biggest obstacle I have, money should not stifle ones creative ideas, but it does.
I have a shoot tomorrow with Iris Moon, she has an outfit she made just for this shoot, I am hoping we have finally got the photographer/model thing worked out. I am still figuring out how to get what I want from her pose wise and she is still trying to understand how I work. It just happens sometimes that way, but we will overcome it and I think tomorrow is the day.
Over at my daughters house sitting for her and Z, something that makes me a very proud papa, seeing she has a wonderful home and a wonderful man in her life. She is starting out so much better than her mother and I did, she learned from the mistakes we made and found someone that balances her out. I can be happy living in a cardboard box honestly, but to know they have this great house together just makes me feel good for her.
I think my heart is dead…I really do
Yeah that came out of nowhere…more shots soon.
