DVPS Imagery: Photo shoot with P Smoov and Brent Amaker & The Rodeo
Recently, two great artists from opposite sides of the musical spectrum decided in typical Seattle fashion to get together and collaborate on a song: P Smoov, a Seattle hip-hop artist, and Brent Amaker & The Rodeo, an alt-country group. The song is “Johnny’s Theme,” remixed by P Smoov, and it debuted on Rcrd Lbl last week. A number of online publications have also featured this brand new song, including Terrorbird…
A Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Festivals
As a special feature to Click & Dagger, we present a technical gear guide brought to you by Alex Crick, aka Snake Charmer, of the Deadly Viper Photo Squad. Crick is a veteran photographer in the Seattle scene with over ten years of concert photography experience. This guide is geared toward other professional and semi-professional photographers using DSLRs to photograph big events, namely music festivals. As a Canon-user, the article…
DVPS Imagery: Motörhead
It’s always tough to photograph someone who doesn’t seem to want to be photographed. Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell shied back and forth across the stage like a rabbit during this show, giving me almost no time to aim, much less compose. Since I obviously couldn’t control his actions, I had to adapt to them. I decided to shoot Phil from the other side of the stage, where he would hopefully…
