Behind The Scenes
Endeavor Media for Alternative Press. This ran back in June and I never got around to posting it. Danny and Steve are doing amazing things, I’ve personally looked up to their work for awhile and have tons of respect for them. Go check out what they’re up to, I promise you’ll be amazed.
In other news, I’ve been super busy working on big things! I’m hoping to get back into the swing of regularly updating this thing, we have tons of catching up to do..
I recently had a shoot with SolidState’s Once Nothing to promote their upcoming reunion shows. Here’s a little video showing how it all went down.
I’ve been slammed busy the last few months. Much if this work I am unable to share those with you until everything is ready, but there are a few that I am able to show. Many of you may remember a previous post where I talked about a shoot with August Burns Red. Those images have recently been turned into ads for D’Addario Strings and have been released nationwide.
Here’s a behind the scenes video shot by Coty Tarr on a recent shoot.
Jake Liefer
Pittsburgh is known for many things: having an amazing football and hockey team, having amazing sandwiches with fries on top, having a horrible baseball team and having good country music.
Wait.. country music?!
I thought that was only a job for Nashville, but North Of Mason-Dixon is trying to change everyone’s mind.
The NOMaD guys contacted me last week for some last minute photos for some upcoming press-releases. They requested that we shoot at night, so we headed beneath a train-trestle in Ellwood City, PA. This post is special, because it includes the first behind the scenes video! From now on, I plan on taping every shoot so everyone can see exactly what happens during a shoot. Check out the video and the resulting photo below!
As always, you can click to view the photos larger.
I recently had a old photo of A Plea For Purging ran for the feature story in Hopecore Magazine.
Check it out!
The August Burns Red guys were in town recently and requested some live shots. I arrived early to the venue when the bands started loading in their gear so that I could scope out where I wanted to be and also get a feel for the venue. During sound check, I found out that the stage lighting was less than satisfactory. They had a few cans set above the drums, but they were best used as a rim. That’s when I called in for backup. The venue had a balcony, so I put a B800 in the far left of the venue and another B800 dialed down pretty low directly off of stage right.
Check out some of the results!
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I shot a wedding last weekend.
No. Let me correct that.
Last weekend, I had the privileged of shooting the most fun wedding I’ve ever attended. Donnie and Carla, when you return from the beaches of Jamaica and see this, thanks a million. You two really made that wedding a blast for everyone who attended.
Before you view the photos, I better give a little back story for those who don’t know Donnie and Carla. Donnie and his friends were huge fans of WWF wrestling when they were younger. So, when Donnie got married, he wanted to bring a little childhood to his wedding for him and his groomsmen. That’s why Donnie had authentic world champion wrestling belts made for all of the groomsmen. So, what better way to photograph this group of guys, than acting tough and beating the crap out of each other in a wrestling ring?
As always, you can click the photos to view them larger.
And for good measure, here’s a few of my personal favorites from the actual wedding.
Haven’t updated in awhile, I’ll promise to fill you in on my life soon. Things have been extremely hectic lately.
Here’s one from a recent shoot with the included lighting setup.
Model: Tonya Tardiff
