As a music photographer, I always want to make images a fan would want to put on their wall as a huge poster. The client can change, but that's always the goal — making images the fans love.
If I can do that, I feel like I've done my job.
@toddowyoung
whenever i edit my gauge for whether or not the photo is good is if i’d pull the picture out of a magazine at 12 years old and tape it to my wall. always pretty fun to see a photo and be like “yeah, that totally would have been my favorite poster”
@toddowyoung
Hard agree. At the end of the day, its artwork and if you are pleased with how you want it to be depicted, then you're already the master of your craft
@toddowyoung
I do the exact same thing. I’m always looking for THE shot, in the chaos of being in the pit. Gives me a goal in mind so I’m not just blindly getting images
@toddowyoung
I try to do the same. I grew up looking through those classic magazines and putting the photos on my wall. I try and make those kind of images.✌️📷
@toddowyoung
Same here. Anytime I’m editing my photos I’m mentally thinking “how would this look in print” and hoping that if someone saw it in a magazine or something that they’d want to tear it out & hang it up
(And then I sometimes up getting prints for myself of some of my favorites 😅)
@toddowyoung
As someone who bought posters and magazines to get the posters to put on my walls and wish I could take those one day. It's always cool to see fans print off my shots and put them on their walls or do fan art with them.
@toddowyoung
There’s a page from “how to draw comics the marvel way” that talks about how to convey action in a still frame, and even though it’s a different art form I think about the advice they give a lot when I’m culling photos
@toddowyoung
Rock photography is only limited to its fans. No matter who you capture it will never be universal. Fans of said artist may purchase said art. But it goes no further. The overall connection and a wider audience is weak when they aren’t connected directly to the artist/music.
@toddowyoung
Agreed Todd. I was the kid cutting out photos from
@isqiisi
& other magazines and hanging them on my wall. As a photographer now that’s what I hope some kid/fans does with my image. That’s the ultimate award/reward.