M83
January 17th, 2012Back in October I shot M83 for WHOA magazine’s January 2012 cover story. The issue dropped today and it looks awesome – check it out!
This was one of those situations where I knew about the shoot weeks in advance (although no date had been finalized) and I had a bunch of ideas floating around in my head but as the days passed, the shoot kept getting pushed back and the amount of time I would have with him kept shrinking. At the end of the day, I photographed Anthony at his rehearsal space in Hollywood and I had an hour with him (including set up time). I ran though all my ideas the day before and I ended up shooting a half dozen different setups. A few days before the shoot, I had been playing with some new lighting setups and I ended up doing some long exposures while “painting” with an LED light on a string. I then combined the light painting images with some of the portraits (you can see the result of one of those images on the cover).
A few images that didn’t make it in the magazine are after the cut.
This last image was a complete experiment. We were messing around shooting through an old TV magnifier and hitting it with hot lights and strobes and these light patterns emerged. So when I worked with Anthony, I had him stand behind the magnifier and scream – and thankfully he really committed to it.