In preparation for a very important photo shoot, I borrowed a flash from Danny De La Cruz. I contacted a couple bands that were playing shows this night to see if I could practice some techniques. I wanted to make my beginner's mistakes now, before I had to do it for real.

Rats Eyes was at the Tin Can Ale House, and I shot them just before they went on.



With any luck, this looks like a regular multi-light setup. In reality, it's a long exposure with me running around the band and popping the flash as many times as I can before the shutter closes. I could get about three or four pops in the 15-30 second exposure periods.



Gabe is very good at standing still for such a long time, which is a bit surprising since he's an absolute maniac on stage. He liked the underlighting look when I showed them what I was going for, so I tried to give him a good version of it. You can see a ghost image of the flash at the bottom.

Then some regular on camera flash just to cover my bases.



Take a guess which one was a class clown as a kid.



I hate to shoot and run, but I had one more stop to make to try this out on another band. I did do one color version for them, though I think this particular street corner looks better in B&W. And it matches the band better too.



Zoom blur, flash, hardcore band. Next time I'll get those streetlamps behind all four of them and make them a truly iconic image. This isn't bad for a first try though, in my opinion.