Earlier this month I headed down to New Orleans to work with the non-profit Rethink. This is my 4th year shooting and producing a project for them. Rethink. is always one of my favorite gigs and I really enjoy the long term working relationship I have with them. Plus each year I work with Colin M. Lenton, a great photographer and also one of my best friends.

Tracing my work through Rethink. is also interesting. The first year (2007) I shot the project on the DVX100a, last year it was the HPX170 and this year it was all shot on the 5d mkII. I’m particularly happy with the interviews, which I shot at 1250 ISO with only one 500watt light source, quite a change of pace from a lot of other shoots i’ve been doing.

I returned to Philadelphia last week to shoot another series of short docs for the wonderful music non-profit Weathervane Music. The first session was with the Philadelphia based band The Party Photographers and the Second session was Twin SIster (pictured above), an amazing band from Long Island.

Weathervane Music is always a blast to shoot for and I had a really wonderful time. For The Party Photographers, I utilized a lot of time lapse to match their fast punk rock feel. For Twin Sister I focused a lot more on slower dolly moves and abstract back lite scenes. Twin Sister’s music has a very cinematic feel to it and they were wonderful to work with! Check them out!