"Face" the Music...

My first photo shoot for Tate Music Group!

Ok, so I totally did this shoot back in February, but never posted anything about it. Better late than never, eh?


This is Jeremiah aka "Kross". He's one of the coolest guys that I've had the privilege of working with at TMG. So humble and such a great Christ-follower. He is also an AWESOME rapper. In February, when he came down to track vocals for his album, I volunteered to do his photoshoot. I'm so glad that I did, because it was a great experience. We had fun walking around in Bricktown and Downtown OKC. There was lots of good conversation the whole time as well! Definitely one of my fave photo shoots I've ever done! Here are a few more photos!


Such a cool guy! Not only was I able to do his photo shoot in February. I also did his album artwork in March! I've had such a great time working with Jeremiah. He's just one of those people that makes sure you know that even though you're just doing your job, you're playing a very important role in his life and in his music. He's just so grateful, and I'm blessed to know him! Here is his cover:


So, I did the photos for him as well as his artwork. Well, now he has ordered an album trailer/commercial and there's a good chance that I could end up producing that as well! In his words, "You might as well do that too!" Haha. There may be a hat trick in the works!

- God bless

Working around the cast...

So, the other day while we were in our TMG cover concept meeting, one of my co-workers was talking about a band that she had to do photography for where one of the members had a broken arm and it was in a cast. Now, I'm sure everyone has seen what an arm cast looks like. They tend to use very bright colors on the wrapping... This makes it very difficult to appear in photos as well as just the awkwardness of a bulky think wrapped around some dudes arm... So, lets just say that there was a lot of "working around the cast". My co-worker had to take photos where only one side of this guy was showing, usually having him pressed up against one of the other members of the band to hide the arm that had the cast on it. This severely limits what a photographer can do. It takes away a lot of poses and the entire shoot has a sort of monotony to it...

I tell you that story to tell you this story, I was sitting there in the meeting thinking "Wow, that would totally suck to have to do a photo shoot with someone who has an arm in a cast..." I believe I may have even said that in the meeting. Well, I had a senior portrait shoot scheduled for that afternoon after I got off work. The whole cast thing never really crossed my mind again...

As I pull up to the spot where I was meeting my client, I saw him get out of his car. Lo and behold, he had a cast on his right arm. "Aw, man, what did you do!?" haha. (I used to work with this guy at Atwoods). Long story short, he had injured himself at work. All my ideas for the shoot totally went out the window... I had to gather my thoughts and figure out what I was going to do...

Well, I remembered the conversation we'd had in our concept meeting and proceeded to "work around the cast".

Overall, the shoot went fairly well! I got a lot of photos that may rank in some of the best I've ever done. We found a lot of cool places to use as backgrounds and that helped a ton. We were a little less diverse on poses, but it was evident from the start that this would be the case. haha

Here are a couple photos from the shoot...