 |  | | | | | Welcome to Rory's Adventures in Photography! This spring has been a delightfully busy one with a diverse list of victims: photographers, models, musicians, lovebirds, and baby-filled people, oh my! From left to right, top to bottom: Samuel Delgado, Joseph Adkins, Roxanne Underwood, Samuel Delgado, Joseph Adkins, and Cyndi Williams. | It is difficult to select a shoot to highlight for the newsletter-so I will simply choose the most recent adventure with my new friend Nathan Tingle-a Nashville musician who surprised me by arriving to our shoot wearing a 77's t-shirt. The 77's are an old, underground alternative/blues/pop band that has been putting out albums in the Christian music industry for almost 30 years. I feel a special kinship whenever I run into a fellow fan. 1980's alternative Christian rock is a sub-genre of a sub-genre from a day when it was us against them: they were many, and we were few-so we old-school fans have to stick together! This only makes sense when you understand that in some churches all rock was banned and Christian rock was simply uncool elsewhere because lumpy groins in spandex, "lick my love pump" lyrics, and men in excessive makeup were en vogue. Even though Stryper breached the polar extremes of tight pants, guitars, and the cross, there were other musical offerings available, too! So here's a link to the 77's website: http://www.77s.com/ | Christian alternative underground music history aside, our goal for this shoot was to create some safe images that could be used for Nathan's promotion and for use on a future album layout. I wanted us to imagine trying to "break the 3rd wall". Obviously, photographs are 2-dimensional and are doomed to remain within their rectangles. With a little play, however, we might increasingly energize the viewer by advancing the pose: freezing motion, having the talent reach towards the camera, implying an association between the viewer and the talent, placing the camera in abnormal positions, and so on... | Above are some of the safer images according to our risk assessment modulation unit. The zig zag trail of light in the background was provided by Dylan Reyes, my first-class assistant who drew light paths with a flashlight from behind a hanging wax paper. If you would like a great photo assistant, click on his name and put him to work! | Here are the riskier images according to our risk assessment modulation unit. As you can see, we are trying very, very, hard to make you, the viewer, entertained :) It simply makes me absolutely thrilled to get to play with all these toys: lights, camera, and energetic, wonder-filled talent! Thank you for reading this month's briefing. Don't forget to visit to my blog here for a more current and randomized slice of what's going on with my photography, Copa's Gospel Cigar Rock, philosophical expeditions, etc. By the way, I released 3 albums and 1 compilation by my rock band Copa last year on iTunes and haven't told anybody about it. If you would like to check it out, click here. Grab a few tunes for yourself and go underground with the gospel cigar! Be seeing you! Rory |
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