Back in the summer of 2008 I decided I needed more portraits to add to my portfolio, so I did a lot of research and ordered a few key items. At the time I had just moved into a new house that had a high ceiling and what I believed was enough space to set up a little studio. So what I did was order a 12′ x 30′ White back drop some hooks to hang it and some new light stands.
When all my new equipment arrived I was super excited to set it all up and start shooting some photo’s with it. So I basically started spreading the word to friends to find people who wanted to do some modelling. My friend Garnet who’s part of Animal Nation was down to shoot some photos, so I got him and Mike to bring their gear over to my house to get a little band photo shoot going.
The morning of the shoot was a nice sunny day in Whistler and when Mike and Garnet showed up there was some beautiful light coming threw the trees in my back yard and It looked like it would be a beautiful accent for a photo. My back yard has a nice rope swing and a coach under a tree which worked perfect little jamming set up.
Mike decided to whip out his turn tables and mount them on the rope swing while Garnet pulled out the Guitar and his Harmonica and we where jamming. We shot for about a half hour in the back yard before we moved into the house where I was excited to pop the cherry on my new studio set up.
As I was setting up my lighting in the studio Mike and Garnet where setting up their turn tables mixers and keyboard to get the ball rolling on the photo shoot. Animal Nation has played a ton of shows in the Whistler area and across North America along with performing several shows in Europe; so there no stranger to putting on a good show.
Before I knew it we where into the photo shoot with some awesome and funny antics being put on by the two performers. Garnet put some soul into playing the piano and Mike put some real spin on the records. The two of them together really know how to feed off each other which helped make for some fun times shooting photo’s in my new studio.
Not too long into the photo shoot the mic’s came out of the trunk of musical instruments and in no time they where swinging them around the circus animals.
When the mics where done going around the world at increasing speeds from the way they where swinging them. Mike then decided to take a step back and do some poses for the ladies, before he got into some different types of spinning.
As the photo shoot was coming near the end the guys put their gear away and I did some close up shots of them together and a few other varieties of solo shots.
I’d like to throw out a thanks to Animal Nation for putting on a good photo shoot, I couldn’t have done it with out them. They where totally a great way to get me back into the groove of shooting portraiture.
If you’d like to check out Animal Nations music you can check them out on Myspace
And if you enjoyed reading about Animal Nation check out more of my blog posts featuring Animal Nation. Animal Nation and DNA6 Live on Stage – Animal Nation, Grand Analog, Buck 65 Live on Stage
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