Music Photography Blog

by Adam Elmakias

Backstage Portraits with Pierce The Veil, letlive. , Memphis May Fire, and Issues

This is my fourth time doing these backstage portraits. Whether or not I can do the shoot depends on if the venue 3 white walls, a white ceiling, and a backstage area people actually hang out in. If it doesn’t at least have these, my shoot is going to be difficult. The first three times I did it everything worked out pretty well. I ran into a few problems but fixed em up, this time- not so lucky. I had been shooting Pierce The Veil all day and for their shoot I had purchased a white seamless roll or backdrop paper. It was the last day of the tour so I had to get the shots. I tried to make two more walls with the limited gear I had. Don’t just me. Long story short -here is what it looked like.


580ex on stand shot to left against white paper as main light, collapsed box as reflector for fill and white backdrop as a white backdrop. The main part that I failed on was placing the fill reflector, about half of my shots were too dark on the left side of the subjects face, our right. So I ended up scraping a good portion of the portraits. Apologies to the people I shot and didn’t end up using the images for, it’s not you – it’s me.

But, that is okay. I figure not making half a shoot out of four shoots work isn’t that bad of a track record. Here are the portraits I did get away with.

 

Mike Fuentes of Pierce The Veil
Mike Fuentes of Pierce The Veil – Purchased Limited Edition Print
Casey Ervin, drum tech for Pierce The Veil
Casey Ervin, drum tech for Pierce The Veil
Tyler Carter of Issues
Tyler Carter of Issues
Tyler Carter of Issues
Tyler Carter of Issues
Tony Perry of Pierce The Veil
Tony Perry of Pierce The Veil – Purchase Limited Edition Print
Dave, guitar tech for Pierce The Veil
Matt, guitar tech for Pierce The Veil
Matt, guitar tech for Pierce The Veil
Anthony of Memphis May Fire
Anthony of Memphis May Fire
Drew, merch master for Pierce The Veil
Drew, merch master for Pierce The Veil
Drew, merch master for Pierce The Veil
Drew, merch master for Pierce The Veil
Jaime Preciado of Pierce The Veil
Jaime Preciado of Pierce The Veil – Purchase Limited Edition Print
Jason Butler of letlive.
Jason Butler of letlive.
Jason Butler of letlive. laughing his ass off about some tacos right after getting out of the shower
Jason Butler of letlive. laughing his ass off about some tacos right after getting out of the shower
Vic Fuentes of Pierce The Veil
Vic Fuentes of Pierce The Veil – Purchase Limited Edition Print
Vic Fuentes of Pierce The Veil
Vic Fuentes of Pierce The Veil – Purchase Limited Edition Print