Freeway at Ultra the Night Club

         It's been over two years that I have been Ultra the Night Club's in house photographer and let me tell you it has it perks.  Last month I had the change to photograph hip hop artist Freeway.  The funny thing is when Ultra told me to come in to photograph a show they did not tell me who the artist was, so when I found out it was Freeway I was pretty pumped.

It's the ROC in the building!!!

Here is a little something something extra; one of my favorite Freeway songs (Party banger!!!).

Edge light and milking your set ups

  

  Like I mention before, I've been working at Ultra the Night Club for more then a year now.  A few months ago I had chance to photograph one of the bouncers that I work with, X. X isn't only a bouncer but he is also a personal trainer; so naturally he is very muscular and I knew that I wanted to capture that in the images.  The way I did that was by using a edge lighting set up.  

    I put two White Lightning X800 lights with foldable medium softboxes behind him pointing them toward his shoulders.  I also add two White Lightning X1600 lights: one with a 5 degree Profoto honeycomb grid taped on that was pointed to the back of his head and the other with a silver beauty dish to light his face.  The last light I used was a Canon 580ex II speedlite with a LumiQuest Softbox III and a full CTO gel on it aimed from the bottom to give a warm fill from the bottom.  The last idea I used was two V-flats on each side of him as gobos so I would get anything flare form the rim lights.  I have add a lighting diagram that I made at Online Lighting Diagram and more images from the shoot below.      

     After about and hour of shooting, X and I got the shoots we need and he left.  Then I said to my self why am I going to strike the set that took me about an hour and a half to two hours to set up alone and not keep using it.  So I called Victor, a friend that plays soccer for FC Greater Boston Bolts, to get some more use out of the set up.  I kept all the same lighting but I did change the gel in the speedlite from a full CTO to a full CTB to get a cool light from the fill to play off the colors of the Bolts' logo.  

    Heres a BTS image of what the set looked like.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!

      I've been working at Ultra the Night Club in Providence, Rhode Island since March of 2011 as a crowd photographer.  I had to work on new years eve and it was an awesome experience!  I took the opportunity to record the count down to the new years and made a video of it that includes some of the images I shot threw out the night, the video is below so you can check it out.

      Since I have been working at Ultra I have been able to pick up some great tricks, later on I will share a post on some tricks and tips.