This last week a group of us got together to take pictures of a band. The location was the parking garage at the Museum of Arts & Culture (MAC) in Spokane’s Browne’s Addition neighborhood. Here are some of the shots—including 2 of the other photographers standing in while I was setting up my lights.

This was a good exercise in visualizing the shot I wanted and getting the lights set up accordingly (except for the great pattern on the floor which I didn’t notice until I shot a few).

The lighting set up is as follows. A flash with a blue gel on it sitting on a stand behind subjects at camera right shot through a metal grate and kept from bleeding all over the musicians by the truck that was parked in some of the shots. A flash with a grid on it camera left. A flash with a grid on it camera right (or below the camera in some of the shots). I used radio triggers for the flashes.

A photographer may not need flashes/lights for every photograph, but I’d like to see a “natural light” photographer get these shots.