Redux: The Tontons

On Wednesday I put some shots up from House of Blues that I took whilst The Tontons were busy shooting a video.  There was a bit of downtime, fortunately, and I managed to pull them aside for a bit and shoot a few promotional shots during breaks.  I set up my new Alien Bees 800 in the green room [don't get confused - that's a technical term, the room is actually blue], and after a couple test shots I pulled out my Polaroid Miniportrait 202 – a camera that I love shooting, but prefer doing so when I have a very specific purpose.  This next shot is really four shutter clicks and two pieces of film, and by and large is one of my favorite photos of the year.

I also did individual portraits of all the members on single pieces of film [Fuji FP-100C, if you are wondering what stock I used].  Adam had my favorite pairing.

The Polaroid shots were taken during breaks in filming the twenty or so takes of Leon the band had to play.  At one point they brought in an audience and filmed another pair of takes before the band treated everyone to a brief set and one final performance of the song.  After all that, the band finally got a chance to relax.  So what did I make them do?  I forced them to get back in front of a camera, of course!  We were given permission to do a quick set of photos in the exclusive Foundation Room.

Even after all those takes, the band was in pretty good spirits.

Those shots were done in one of the private rooms within the Foundation Room area.  I popped my Nikkor 16mm 2.8 on my 40D, and we took a few more that utilized a massive couch in the open lounge area as well.

And I managed to sneak in a couple shots with my lady before all was said and done.

The rest of the photos from the night, including the live shots, can be found in this set on my flickr.