Written by JRPosted in Events,PhotographyTags: 2012, Australia, Blood, Braaains, Day Of The Dead, Ghouls, Gore, Halloween, Horror, Melbourne, Night Of The Living Dead, October, The Walking Dead, Undead, Urban, Victoria, Zombie, Zombie Shuffle, Zombie WalkOctober 28, 2012
The Dead Shall Inherit The Earth
I’ve lost track of the amount of Melbourne Zombie Shuffles I have shot, but without fail, it is one of my fave shooting assignments of the year. It’s always a ton of bloody fun and of course, 2012 was no exception.
Melbourne unleashed a glorious Spring day and that ensured that an even greater throng of the undead would be at Carlton Gardens.
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Written by JRPosted in Gigs,PhotographyTags: Burton C Bell, Dino Cazares, Fear Factory, Hifi Bar, Industrial, Matt DeVries, Metal, Mike Heller, The Industrialist, Visceral IndustryOctober 1, 2012
Fear Is The Mind Killer
You prepare hard for a photo shoot at any given music venue. No two venues are the same and now that I have been doing the Rock photography for several years, you begin to know the intricacies of each venue and pretty much know what you will expect from the get-go.
Having said that, Melbourne’s Hifi Bar is always a venue I have struggled in. The lighting is the worst you will have to deal with so it is a given, it will be a hard, frustrating shoot almost always. In the rare case the ‘lighting’ guy actually uses the front lights and (shock, horror) lights the stage, it can be a fun venue to shoot in. But those instances seem to be few and far between.
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