The shoot was a lot of fun, we mostly shot around locations in the downtown Knoxville area. This panoramic image was in a alley we found and set some lights up in. We shot using a focus-stacking technique while moving the lights around to give the appearance that everyone is on the same focal plane.
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One of the things both we and the band were interested in was creating a sense of motion in the photos. Another theme we agreed on was that there needed to be ghosts! We shot this one on the stairs at the Bijou Theatre. It is blended from about 8 separate exposures made without moving the camera.
This was another "dusk" shot outside near downtown, we got some pretty entertaining looks while we were setting off smoke-bombs and studio strobes. It might have looked crazy to everyone passing by but sometimes that's what you have to do to get interesting shots.
This was a really fun shot we did inside the Bijou. We put the guys to work making them run all over the theatre while we snapped away. This final image is made up of over 60 different exposures that we blended together in post by hand.
This is a fun composite that we shot in different locations. I wish everyone could see the 600MB+ full size tiff file, it has a ton of detail we worked into it. Some of it was captured at the Bijou Theatre and some of it was done in studio. We took a lot of images of the Bijou and cut them up in order to build a stage that was the right size to put the band on. The idea was from the title of the new band's new EP, it's about leaving the past behind while being caught between the life you knew and the life you want. Our model Tessa did a great job as a ghost metaphorically interpreting different stages of acceptance and denial.
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