Jason Gray




Shot a singer/songwriter named Jason Gray last week. The label wanted an organic, rootsy vibe to match his music, so I shot a lot of existing light stuff instead of the big kung pao flash setups. Reid brought over a canon 5d he'd just gotten that morning and after seeing my lenses at full frame, I promptly ran away with it. I think I need a 5d. The full frame is a beautiful thing with the 24-70L and the pictures just seem more... filmlike I guess. I'm not sure if I could tell you why it's better, all I can tell you is that I'm selling my 30d, battery grip and canon 10-22 lens to get one. (anyone want that stuff?) It's just mo better. It's not in my budget right now, but I'll sell the jeep if I have to. Of course, I'm also trying to furnish a house, so if any of you (or your friends) work at ikea, west elm or macy's, (and can hook up the employee discount) let me know. I'm gonna try to buy some real furniture for the first time. I also bought an alien bees 400 which turned out to be very cool, although in retrospect, I should have gotten the 800. I like the alien bees stuff a lot. If you've been itching for pocket wizards but can't spring the big money, alien bees has a much cheaper version, which I haven't tried, but I bet is good stuff.

My pics of G.R.I.T.S. ran in CCM this month, but sadly I didn't get no credit.

These shots are mostly existing light. It was very overcast both days we shot but I rolled with it and as you can see, overcast turns the sun into a giant softbox. I did some processing for color. The middle shot, I used a shoot-through umbrella.

Thanks Jason, Steve, Josh, Reid, Buckley, Dana, Abby and Christie for helping me pull this one off.

UPDATE: I blame my british heritage on the fact that I spelled it jason grey. apparently it's jason gray. Fortunately this isn't as bad as the steve lillywhite fiasco where I lost an L somewhere on the way to the internet and he called me to tell me I'd gotten it wrong on my blog. We'll just add that to the many many most embarrassing moments in my life.

Posted: Sun - October 29, 2006 at 10:52 PM          

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