Breaking down "Allergic to Broke"

My most recent photoshoot involved some commercial work for the band "Allergic to Broke". You can check out their music here: http://soundcloud.com/bluepurpleandpink/.

I had planned the entire shoot in Victorian Square (Greg Howell's excellent recommendation), but actually some of my favorite shots were shot in a small parking lot that was still under construction right next to the square.

This shot was taken in the parking lot under a wild looking poker type light from above, and side lit camera right with a wireless flash.

Found this staircase in the parking lot area. The light was dying, but tried to get some high contrast lighting before the sun went back behind the clouds.

One of my favorite shots from the shoot...has more of a portrait flair. I am at the bottom of some stairs shooting up with a 55-200mm zoom. Wireless flash, camera right.

Back to the way cool parking lot and light. We just camped out here for a bit. I was totally digging this scene. The background is the natural texture from the parking lot, which I thought was cool as well. In this shot, I fired the wireless flash (camera right) through a "snoot" to get the focused light, and the big shadows.

The effect I was going for was their face being lit from above, but actually most of the faces are lit with the flash.

Flash, camera left, obviously, going for a big shadows, high contrast. Kind of reminds me of a walking scene from "Reservoir Dogs".

Finally got to Victorian square, more walking.

Bryan Sayler from Think Digital http://www.hirethink.com/ set up the shoot with me, and also was an excellent photo assistant throughout the shoot! You can see him holding my flash at the top of the stairs in this shot. Bryan does excellent web design work for various companies.

Setting up light stands for all the different locations we shot would have been very time consuming. Instead we moved from local to local, and rocked it out in an hour or so.

Finished up at Devassas for a cocktail! Loved the shoot, we had a blast. Good group of guys to work with. They started the shoot with a shot, then finished with a cocktail.......my kind of crew.