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Got any cool pics on your band website?

Post by YOUR KONG » Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:49 pm

You know, with like, double-guitars and corvettes and barbarians slaying dragons and stuff?

No seriously - I'm looking for some ideas for bio pics, so anybody who wants to share, please do.

Tnx

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Post by MichaelAlan » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:21 am

I like this one: Image


And this.
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DONT take pictures in front of a tagged up brick wall behind your favorite venue.

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Post by ottokbre » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:41 am

I am solo, so here;
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Post by megajoe » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:43 pm

This guy told our bass player we suck, so we kept taking pictures of him, and now he is on our main page.

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Post by workshed » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:33 pm

Here is a great place to find out what NOT to do for your promo photos:

http://www.rockandrollconfidential.com/hall/index.php

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Post by YOUR KONG » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:03 pm

Ha ha - was he making that sneering face the whole time?

workshed, thanks! I was trying to think of that site for Michael Alan.

ottokbre - that is kind of creepy

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Post by workshed » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:14 pm

King Kong Kitchie Kitchie wrote:workshed, thanks! I was trying to think of that site for Michael Alan.
No problem -- I think I wasted an entire afternoon laughing out loud at that site a few months ago. I also think that this promo pic is one of the best ever:

http://www.wranglerbrutes.com/meettheband.gif

For anyone who knows who Sam McPheeters is, you will understand the complete awesomeness behind it.

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Post by Wilkesin » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:32 pm

Wow, now i have a new favorite website to kill time!

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Post by MichaelAlan » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:09 am

workshed wrote:Here is a great place to find out what NOT to do for your promo photos:

http://www.rockandrollconfidential.com/hall/index.php
I am serisouly scared that one of our older pictures is on there. We have some bad ones on the site. Never let a friend take your pictures unless they are a proffesional...and even then...



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Post by YOUR KONG » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:40 am

MichaelAlan wrote:I am serisouly scared that one of our older pictures is on there.
You must share. Which one?
MichaelAlan wrote: Never let a friend take your pictures unless they are a proffesional...and even then...
Yeah, this is why I ask - I have an art-school graphic-designer friend taking some pics on Wednesday - BUT he was all like "Oh, we can go to Brooklyn where there's some cool abandoned factories and stuff!"

And I'm thinking "Ooooh, maybe they'll have brick walls there!"

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Post by eeldip » Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:59 am

King Kong Kitchie Kitchie wrote: he was all like "Oh, we can go to Brooklyn where there's some cool abandoned factories and stuff!"

And I'm thinking "Ooooh, maybe they'll have brick walls there!"
ha!

yea, you would be better off going to sears or k-mart in xmas sweaters... actually a friends band did that. that was a pretty sweet session.

i always wanted to go to a ranch and rent horses and get prop swords and take some pictures...

i guess it really depends on what your band is like. if you guys are pretty straight up, singing your "ki-mo kee-mo ki-mo kis" in the holler tree with a straight face... abandoned factories may be cool.

another decent shot is to go to really boring bauhaus building and take VERY serious shots.

like those buildings on park ave... or better yet, find one in the burbs that has "radiant city" landscaping around it. or go to brasilia.

i also like shots when you are in the water. that always seems kinda funny to me.

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Post by MichaelAlan » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:08 am

I hate this one. It's just a garage:

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But I DO like this one:

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Post by penelec » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:14 am

MichaelAlan, that last one makes me wanna go skate.

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Post by MichaelAlan » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:39 pm

It was friggin cold that day, our cars were parked about 1/2 mile away and i was sick. I wanted to die.


I say make your pictures interesting. Brick walls are not interesting. I knew a band that took a picture outside of this studio in Pamona called studio 9 where there are all these cement posts, about 3 feet high. They were all in a line jumping over them meter-hop style, but the guy on the end took a post in the balls mid picture. That was thier band picture.



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Post by armanbohn » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:18 pm

check out the blue blockers....

http://armanbohn.com/html/eureka_farm_2.html

We loved those things!

The picture was shot with a blue/red split polarizer lens.

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