Rockstar

I've had a bunch of calls lately to do photoshoots and one of the fun things is they are all quite different - engagements, kids, pregnant, live music, and rockstars. :0) Monday I photographed Jonathan the rockstar - he's actually really down to earth and a nice guy. I photographed him when he was 15 or so and now he's all grown up and 20. Crazy. He's from Houston and wanted me to shoot him so he came to Austin. So that was cool. He was with a label for a while and they had done some crazy rockstar pics last year but now he is looking for another label and wanted some pictures that were more him. Was cool to step out of my normal stuff and do this. He could probably model if he wanted to but he's pretty focused on his music. He's quite slim and REALLY muscly for being so slim so that was actually a little challenging to get the angles right with his body so that the chest muscles looked right and the arms weren't too thin. Anyway, here are a few of my favorites from the shoot - yes, I played in photoshop with a few.

i really liked this location with the textures and then added a bunch of noise in photoshop. think it works?
more of a tight headshot. trying to accent the eyes and jaw line.
this one looks a little too ad like or something but I liked it. what do you think of the door behind him?
this was in between settings but liked the lines and expression. I desaturated it some and played with the contrast.yes, he can smile and has great teeth. they really are that white. i liked the almost playful eyes and smile. I was probably saying something retarded to get the real smile out of him. :0)~