Black Friday
Over the latter half of 2005 I became good friends with an Oklahoma City band called The Stock Market Crash. The first time I saw them play back in June I was really impressed, no one else in Oklahoma City had a sound like that.
I took a few photos at that first show that I didn't really think were that great because the lighting was so red. But, they saw the photos and really seemed to like them. I met them at another show and we talked and we shared a lot of the same musical interests. They're really great guys. They asked me if I could do band portraits of them. I hadn't really done anything like that before but I wanted to give it a try and since I liked their music I wanted to help them out. They liked the results of the photos and they use them today for promotion and in newspapers.
I later took photos of them at Bell Lab's recording studio in Norman, OK while they were recording their album which would later be titled "Geology". They also use some of those shots on their website.
Last Friday TSMC had a CD release show and started on a 2 month east coast tour. I went to the show and took some photos. With a new light setup they had going I was pleased with the results. Also in conjuction with a lot of research and practice I've been doing on photoshop and post-production work lately, I think this is one of my better live music sets. It helped a lot that the venue was packed out and there was great energy all around. Hopefully that shows in the photos.
I also heard that several of my photos were in local newspapers. Last week's Gazette and Friday's daily Oklahoman. Their manager said he was also putting them in other newspapers in cities where they would be playing.
Here are a few of the photos I took the other night, click on one of them to see the entire gallery:
This is one of my favorites because it reminds me of an old photo of Ian Curtis of Joy Division
The following photo was not originally intended when I shot it, I accidently had it on a 4 second exposure but kept holding the camera to see what would happen. This is what turned out. I liked the result and went ahead and processed it.
