I had the pleasure of shooting one of my favorite bay area bands, Stripmall Architecture, at Milk bar on Haight Street last Saturday night, and it was an evening filled with beautiful music, awesome visuals, equally awesome people, and–best of all (to the photographer)–amazing, phenomenal lighting! I’d never shot at Milk before, but I am...
This show was even more fun than I thought it was going to be–and being side stage, one of only a couple of photographers present and using a rented external flash for the first time at a show, I was in heaven. A totally sweaty, disco-fied funky heaven. Sounds like my kind of place!
I am lucky that I generally get to cover the bands I want to cover for Examiner.com, and as such, it is difficult for this ever to feel like a job. And I am not saying that even on the rare occasions when my editor sends me to cover a band I’ve never heard of...
