I recently had the privilege of doing a shoot with Joe Devenney, a local Boston musician. It was not only fun, but a great chance to try something a little different and stylistically more editorial.

Meet Joe!

Joe Devenney is a professional guitarist sprung from Philadelphia. He recently graduated from Berklee College of Music and specializes in modern rock/progressive electric guitar, however he plays a number of diverse genres of music. He currently performs in the Boston area in a variety of musical projects.

His first, The “Joe Devenney Band”, is an instrumental modern rock guitar-based group that he formed in his first year at Berklee. He later joined  ”Meridien”, a progressive hardcore band. In both projects, he is the lead guitarist, producer, booking agent, manager, and music director.

Recently, he has become the lead/rhythm guitarist and co-songwriter for “Dearest Pinky”, a progressive rock band under the music direction of Berklee faculty and professional guitarist Scott Tarulli.

In addition to this work, he also has been teaching guitar privately for 6 years.

This summer he’ll be on the road so look out for his tour dates in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston with “Dearest Pinky”,as well as “The Joe Devenney Band” in Los Angeles.

To learn more, please visit:

Facebook.com/joedevenneyband

YouTube.com/joedevenneyband

Purevolume.com/meridian

Dearestpinky.com

I don’t consider myself a “music photographer” per se, but it’s always fun to try some new things so we had a blast playing around with different ideas for different shots. They’re fun and playful, so getting some great photographs was pretty easy.

In addition to working with Helicopria, I also did some work for a couple of other musicians whose work I’ll post here a little later. Here are a few of my favorite shots from our session.

Below is just a sample of the many image from the shoot. To see more, have a look at the BRIDAL FASHION 2010 gallery in my portfolio.

Thanks to the following people who contributed their time and talent to make this shoot a great success. You guys all rock and I couldn’t have done it without you!

Bridal Boutique: Camilla’s Bridal
Venue: The Topsfield Commons
Flowers: Flowers at Countryside
Stylist: Terry Wheaton Email: {terryjwheaton} at {gmail.com}
Hair and Makeup: Janeen Jones
Models: Amanda Price, Madeline Auclair, and JoJo
Equipment Rental: Calumet Boston

Keep a watch out for more pictures this week.

I had a great time shooting at night and am looking forward to the next one. I’m going to wait a couple of months until the weather warms a bit though ’cause baby it was COLD outside!!

–Erik

I had the pleasure of meeting Samm a few weeks ago at a lighting workshop in Boston. She was one of several models who came out and worked hard for two days to help build her portfolio while working with about 15 different photographers. I only got a couple of images from those two days of Samm, but I knew I wanted to work with her again. It was obvious that she had some real talent as a model.

We exchanged a few emails talking about another shoot and decided on a theme of high fashion. I worked with her on her posing to really bring out the angles in the shot. A few different wardrobe and lighting changes allowed us to really maximize the time spent shooting to get a variety of looks.

We did the shoot at my studio and I had a new helper, Valerie, a high school senior with an interest in photography. Thanks again to the fabulous Vania Arroyo for her skill with makeup to make Samm look great.