Photo by Shelby Reneau on my birthday
Instead of making a bunch of smaller blogs, I thought I'd just throw all of my favorites of February 2017 into one bigger blog. Feburary was filled with a lot of fun stuff, I celebrated my birthday, hosted a photo meet up & went to another in LA, and shot some photos of friends.
I'm currently sitting in Burbank looking back on an amazing day where two photo friends came to visit my original home of the Central Coast. As I look back on the photos, I remember having a lot of fun even just driving and around talking about shooting shows or goals for the future. I'll link their instagram's on their names so you guys can follow them as well. @annaleemedia & @mallorymturner. These are two genuinely great people that I feel lucky to know and I'm glad to know I have these photos to reflect on a good day.
Photo by Anna Lee Media
Photo by Mallory M Turner
I took the portraits of The Shelters outside of the Marquis Theater in Denver, CO. Before the show was ideal for the shots because it was our last show of the tour with them so I knew after would be crazy. The next night was the last show of the tour for us so we took some photos with The Hunna. I think everyone was feeling a little bummed about parting ways so we stuck around for as long as possible that night trying to savor the moment. I took the portraits of The Hunna outside of Club Sound in Salt Lake City, UT. All the portraits were shot with a Canon 5d Mrk III, a Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art Lens, and a Canon 430 ex II flash. At the bottom will be links of tour portraits I've done in the past.
Photo of Me by Anna Lee
Jacob | The Shelters
DJ | The Shelters
Josh | The Shelters
Sebastian | The Shelters
Ryan | The Hunna
Dan | The Hunna
Jack | The Hunna
Anna Lee | The Hunna
Jermaine | The Hunna
Yogi | The Hunna
Dave | The Hunna
Mikel | Night Riots
Matt | Night Riots
Marshall | Night Riots
Rico | Night Riots
Alt Nation Advanced Placement Tour
Night Riots Crew
Photo by Tara Avary
Managed to take portraits of everyone on The Zoetic Tour. I shot them the same way I shot the portraits on the previous tour, you can see those here. There was only two bands on this tour, The Rocket Summer and Farro, but I still managed to get quite a few portraits. I'm really happy with how these ones came out and it reminds me of how awesome all of these dudes were.
J | Farro
Josh Farro | Farro
Quinn | Farro
Randle | Farro
Tyler | Farro
Aaron | Farro
Tyler | The Rocket Summer Crew
Kyle | The Rocket Summer
Teddy | The Rocket Summer
Pat | The Rocket Summer Crew
Tara | The Rocket Summer Crew
I decided to take some portraits of everyone on the tour at the last show. For as DIY as they are, they didn't come out half bad. All I used was a Canon 430ex II, Canon 5d mark III, and 24-70mm f2.8. That isn't a bad set up but It definitely isn't as cool as what some other photographers do for tour portraits. The goal is always to improve but for now, these are the tools I had. So I just set everyone up right next to the Young Rising Sons bus, which had some white on it, pointed my flash at the bus at an angle until I found one I liked. I got a portrait of every single person on the tour, including the beloved crew, but somehow I missed Matt from Night Riots. Oops, sorry dude <3.
Mike | The Mosers
Dave | The Mosers
Matt | The Mosers
Ricky | The Mosers
Rob | Guitar Tech
Zack | Front of House
Vanessa | Merch for Young Rising Sons
Ashley | Merch for The Mosers
Dylan | Tour Manager
Julian | Young Rising Sons
Andy | Young Rising Sons
Dylan | Young Rising Sons
Steve | Young Rising Sons
Rico | Night Riots
Mikel | Night Riots
Travis | Night RIots
Nick | Night Riots
I took a film camera on warped with two or three rolls of Kodak Portra 400. I loved how the colors came out and I've been really excited to post these for a while now. As I was saying in my previous blog, I made friends with a bunch of merch people. These people were all rad and really made the experience dope. Also, it has been almost a year so I'm sorry if I forgot anyones name.
Mike | Merch for Hundredth
Merch for Senses Fail
Trey The Ruler
Bear & Asia | Vans DIY Chop Shop
Jeffrey & Avery | Merch for Modsun
Jake & Ansley | Jule Vera
Michael & Danielle | STAPAW
Wisconsin
New Beat Fund
Rico of Night Riots | Jake & Mat of Citizen
Laundry Day with Night Riots
Whitney | Merch for Beautiful Bodies
My Special Merch Book
Frankie | Merch for Metro Station
Ellie | Merch for Matchbook Romance & Jac Vanek
Gino | Merch & Tour Manager for Juliet Simms
Jak | Merch for As It Is
Josh | Merch for Citizen
Josh & Ryland | Citizen
Chuck & Citizen
Matt | Tour Manager for Citizen
Whitney, Jade & Lynn
Moose Blood
Carlos | Merch for Beartooth
Ralph | Being As An Ocean
Anthony | Merch for Being As An Ocean
Michael | Being As An Ocean
Joel | Being As An Ocean
Josh & Michael | '68
Trip
Ryan | Tour Manager for Metro Station
Vuhnastyy | Merch for This Wild Life
Sammy | Photographer
Jamie | Merch for Transit
Kurt Cuffy | Photographer
Carl | Merch for I Killed The Prom Queen
Joel | Hands Like Houses
Nesha & Alex | Hands Like Houses
Jesus | Pure Noise tent & Photographer
Dieter | Photographer
Matt | Driver on Warped
Jennings | Merch for Handguns
Sam | Sumerian Tent
Jasmine
Kristin | Merch for Bebe Rexha
Travis | Merch for Riff Raff
