Posts Tagged ‘tx’
Anvil
Last night Anvil played a great show at Emos, I was there to document the night for both Austinist, and Emos. I had a great time at the show, got some nice photos, and watched a very happy man with a huge smile on his face play some metal for the venue full of fans.
The complete set can be viewed HERE, and buy a print of your favorite photo while your at it.
Hope Con + Agnostic Front
Last night there were two great shows in Austin for the kids into punk/hardcore: Hope Conspiracy, Bitter End, Eight Fifteen, and Power Trip @ Emos // and right after that was Agnostic Front at Red 7.
I spent most of the night at Emo’s, then walked over for a few songs by Agnostic Front, definitely worth the late night.
Below are some of my favorites, but you can see them all and buy a print HERE and HERE.
Power Trip
Eight Fifteen
Bitter End
Hope Conspiracy
Agnostic Front
Agnostic Front
Agnostic Front
Merryman
Here is a quick shoot I did with a young musician from San Antonio last weekend.
Merryman
Also, something new on my blog, if you look right below this you’ll see a few icons that look familiar. You can now send my blog posts to twitter, facebook, digg, and a few other sites.
Free Week at Red 7
Here is the first installment of my 3 part post updates for the day. After Fun Fun Fun Fest I took a little preemptive break from shows in order to keep myself from becoming jaded of concerts. That month passed and the first day of the new year came, so did free week. The only show I was able to make it to was the first night at Red 7: Naw Dude, Power Trip, Mammoth Grinder, Iron Age, and Pack of Wolves. I just missed Naw Dude, sorry Doug.
Here are some of my favorites from the show, and go here to purchase a print.
Randy & Allison got hitched!
Here are photographs documenting Randy and Allisons Wedding last weekend at Mother Egans Irish Pub here in Austin, TX. What a great night it was, just a small wedding with close friends and family, all crowded inside a small pub having a good time. There are a few shots scattered in there that were shot on some old expired ISO 3200 film, they came out with a super dark with noir look, pretty cool. Here is a slideshow full of photos.
-enjoy
Randy & Allison – Wedding Preview
I shot a wedding last night at an Irish Pub here in Austin, TX… I’m not quite done with the entire set after a day of editing, and I’m waiting on film to be processed, but here is a little sneak peak 
Cooper at 6 months
Just a few months ago I photographed Cooper for the first time, and last night I got to spend the evening with him again. Despite the cold the little guy toughed it out without one complaint and managed to be super cute in his little beanie. The location was this years “Trail of Lights”, which is far from what it was last year… a few lights, a big tree of lights, and some food stands seemed like all you saw this year. Bummer…. But some great photographs came from it. Unlike my last post where I lit up a parking garage like a studio this shoot was all available light from the lit up trees, huge work lights the city set up, and a small LED light from the handlebars on my bicycle!
The next three photos is where the LED light came in handy.
Pilot Cooper
Robot Cooper
Cooper has some rad parents and I cant wait to document the rest of his first year!
Laura Lee Bishop
I had the pleasure of photographing the local artist Laura Lee Bishop this past weekend in a downtown parking garage. The inside was lined with white brick wall, concrete floors, and ceiling; I setup shop and lit the place up like a studio.
Got outside just after the sun began to hide….
….and found this amazing hole of light where the sun was bouncing off a gold building behind us. Light like this is to good to pass up, just something you can’t plan for, and you HAVE to take advantage of.
Then back inside with the rest of her band.
Busy, busy, busy….
Lots going on, and I’ve been either to busy or tired to get on here and give you some previews lately, so here is a big random update. I’ll start with the most recent, bicycles… I’ve been riding my little kids bicycle around quite a bit and have been having a blast. This past weekend there was a small jam/demo at a skatepark up north called Ramp Ranch, I snapped this quick shot of Hanson Little jumping out of the bowl quarter on the far right and wall riding into the small quarter. It was up on Mutiny Bikes website after the jam which was pretty rad! Go ride a bike now!
Next up is some film, I recently purchased myself a new film camera and have been shooting more film than usual. When I say new, I do mean new to me as the camera is 10 years old (Nikon F100 if your curious)! Here is a couple from the last roll I got developed from the old F100.
and here from the cult classic… Holga
Last month I did a press kit shoot with the local band We Paint The Town
Finally, a quick editorial shoot for a new small indie music magazine out of San Antonio called Backbeat Magazine for a gear talk section with a local musician. Robert Cherry brought out a couple speakers and a lot of cables, to bad we didn’t make and loud noises.
One final thing, I recently setup a facebook page, so please add it and spread the word.
High Watt Crucifixers
Here is a quick look into what comes out of a press kit photo shoot between myself and a local Rock n’ Roll band High Watt Crucifixers. I spent a little over a hour with them this past weekend in and around The Highball here in Austin, that is itself a work of art! The Highball is a rad new bowling alley, skee-ball, karaoke, and restaurant/bar all in one location, that is straight out of the 60’s! Anyways, here are my favorite photographs from the evening. Please contact me for any questions/inquiries for setting up a shoot similar to this for your band.
Fun Fun Fun Fest Photos 2009
Here are my photos from this years Fun Fun Fun Fest! All of the photos are below in a slideshow from each day, click on a photo and you will be directed to my photoshelter site where a print and/or license can be purchased for the photograph.
Day 1
Day 2
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2009 Preview
Was wild, Saturday was super hot, then Sunday was super rainy and muddy. I had a blast and I’m still beat from the weekend of Fun. Photos are still being sorted through and I should have them all online the next day or so, I came home with over 3,000! (yes I get trigger happy) To hold you over here are a few of my favorites.
The Sword
Black Stage Crowd
Les Savy Fav
Metallagher
Mud
Lucero
Gorilla Biscuits
Danzig
Fu Manchu, and Eyehategod
Last night had some good shows going on for the kickoff of Fun Fun Fun Fest, I went to a few of them and came back with some shots of two bands. Both super loud and heavy bands, I loved it… Fu Manchu at Red 7, and Eyehategod at Emo’s. Here are two of my favorites from last night, to see the rest check out my Flickr account, and/or purchase a print here! Check back in daily this weekend to see more from Fun Fun Fun Fest, or follow my Twitter account for a few live updates from the show @tylernutter
Fu Manchu
Eyehategod
Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun Fest
I haven’t had much to blog about lately but that will all change tomorrow night, Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend at Waterloo park and pre shows are about to start, then Fun Fun Fun Fest! Check back in this weekend for pictures from a lot of bands, and a lot of fun from Fun Fun Fun Fest. Until then here is a photo of my friends dog Chewy!
Now that was a lot of FUN!
Die Youngs Last show
Texas Hardcore legends Die Young played their last show this past saturday after 7 years. It was great photographing this band over the past couple of years, and I’m sure there will be other projects in the near future from the guys in the band. They ended it with a 8 band show in the bands home town of Houston, TX at Walters on Washington. I took close to 2000 photos that evening, and edited them down heavily, due to the amount I’m going to show some favorites from the last two bands, and the rest can be viewed on my Photoshelter account here.
The lineup was:
The Separation
Legion
Mammoth Grinder
The Golden Age
Dead City
Folsom
Seven Generations
Diy Young
Die Young
Seven Generations
Who is also about to play their last show, I was glad to see this band once before they ended it. Their set reminded me why I got into and love Hardcore Punk music. I could feel the raw energy this band put off with such emotion during the whole set, and tried to capture it as best as I could.
Info on the lighting used:
The venue was super dark, a bit to dark fro the D700 even, and to capture enough detail from the show I had to light it. Instead of using the small pop-up flash attached to my camera, or a larger strobe attached to the hotshoe I instead put up two Nikon SB-25’s triggered wirelessly with cybersyncs. First one was stage left and all the way to the back behind the gear, it was gelled with a 1/2 CTO. Second was stage right and just off the stage at the front corner up against a pillar out of the way from the crowd and safe, it was gelled with a full CTO.
Tigercity
Shot something a little different from the usual punk rock shows I end up at last night, turns out I came home with some great photographs, and some catchy tunes stuck in my head on my nice ride home at about 12:30 last night. It was a pleasure listening to and shooting something different/new for a change, I hope to be around for some more tunes like this in the future. A local band called Speak started the show, then Royal Bangs from Tennessee, and ending the night with Tigercity from NY.
Enjoy a few of my favorite pictures from the night right below, it was shot for Austinist, and everything from the night is available right here on my photoshelter account.
Motörhead
Last night was pretty rad, I had the chance to take some photos of Motörhead live here in Austin, TX at Stubbs BBQ, also Reverend Horton Heat. I missed out on the first band that played (Nashville Pussy) due to the show actually starting early which is pretty rare here in town. I showed up right after the other photographers got the boot from the press pit, so I missed out on taking any photos of them, and don’t get me started on my opinions to the 3 song rule. The show was great, and Motörhead was super loud, so glad I remembered my ear plugs. I covered this for the Austinist, so be sure to go check out my set on the Austinist website and the other good they have for any Austinite. As well as prints are available right here as usual.
Heres some of my favorites:
Playing catch up
I’ve been lazy lately and haven’t took the time to get this photo blog updated in a while it seems, I’ve taken a few portraits since the last update so here is a few posts in one.
Here is Joshua Kedzuch who plays acoustic guitar and sings, these were for a demo cd he is putting out. These were taken during a short break in the rain last week behind Guerro’s.
My grandparents retired and moved away from everything a few years back, just outside of Del Rio, TX near Lake Amistad/Devils River is there slice of paradise. I took a long weekend a few weeks back and went down there to relax, and came back with a few good photos.
My cousins were there also with their little kids.
Lane
Sean
And the last one for today is another cousins little girl Simone who just got finished destroying her first birthday cake!
So full!
Motörhead is tonight so check back in here in a couple of days to hopefully see some great photographs from that
Dubb Sicks
Last weekend I shot some portraits of a local Hip Hop artist, Dubb Sicks for his next album release. Walked around downtown Austin and found a few spots.
The Sword
Last night The Sword played here at The Mohawk for a sold out show, Pack of Wolves, and Ratking started the night off and the evening was filled full of heavy riffs, awesome stage lights, and smoke machines! My photos from this concert were featured on the Austinist website, please check it out and show them some support. Great people!
Go here see them all, and purchase a print!
Pack Of Wolves
The Dukes
I had a early morning session with the Dukes this past tuesday down by Town Lake here in Austin, TX. Just a simple post wedding portrait session after they just signed the papers last month with no ceremony. We all had a blast even though it was 7 am and felt like the Texas heat was in the high 90’s halfway through the shoot. Here are a few of my favorites from the morning:
Gig Life in Austin, TX
This past Thursday night the Gig Life tour rolled through town and played at Emos, I’ve known the guys in Set Your Goals for a few years now so I went out and made some photographs of the bands performances that night. I got there a bit late and missed the first band that went on, Drive A. After that I stood up on stage and poured out sweat, and clicked that shutter button in this Texas heat.
Here are some of my favorites from the night, and go here if you would like to see the rest and purchase a print from the show.
Fireworks
Polar Bear Club
Four Year Strong
Set Your Goals
One Light
So if you have been following my work the past month or so and paid attention to my shooting, specifically lighting technique you would of noticed I’ve been using just one light. I read a lot, not books, but blogs and just about any other information on photography I can soak up on this beautiful internet. I have recently been following Zack Arias who does amazing work, and for the most part sticks with one light for lighting his subjects. I have always been a fan of simplicity as well as the cost of one vs. lots. What I’m more stoked on is to be taking my first photography workshop this coming October with Zack, I have taught my self up until now, and hope to learn a lot from this. After signing up for this workshop I have been trying my take on the simple one light techniques at lighting photographs. While I have 3 speed lights all ready for wireless action, I have set 2 aside and worked on just one for the time being. Here is a recent, a friend of mine just finished chopping and painting his new bike, he rode it over and asked for a quick photo and five minutes later he rode off. Just a quick shot with one light up high and to the right of the camera, nothing amazing about the picture, just simple.
June!
You may recognize June if you have looked through my portfolio any, she is a friend of mine’s daughter and extremely cute! I’ve done a series of shoots with her throughout the past year and this was the last of that series ending with her being 1 year old. Other than getting bigger and able to run faster she still makes the same awesome face and hand expressions, I spent a few hours with her Saturday morning down by Town Lake/Lady Bird Lake and for well over 50 great shots, I liked them all but I just can’t let myself post 50 pictures in a blog posting, so here is 10 of my favorites. Oh, and the dogs came out for this one.
