The 2-man band is called Automatic Toys (Myspace, Facebook) and they got in touch with me because they were throwing together a last minute music video shoot and wanted me to do some still photography.  It was at a sound stage in Mississauga, and a professional event lighting team was there with awesome lasers and fog machines and stuff.

At one point I was standing on a piece of plastic and lifted up by a forklift.  Everything was great until I lowered my camera from my face and realized how high I was and that I had nothing to hold on to, and I almost peed my pants.  It was fun though.  (I sat down after that.)

Good times.

Now there are 8!  It was hard to find a time for everyone to get together, and if you live in Toronto, you may recall that it was raining for most of this week.   With Wednesday night being our only option, I had to improvise in my tiny home studio.  When I say “tiny”, I mean that it’s a 10′x10′ room that 8 people (+ a photographer) wouldn’t fit into without lighting equipment and a backdrop.

I think we were able to come up with some creative ideas to get around the space confinements.

4 hours – and 800 pictures – later, I have a lot of compositing to do!  This is a work in progress, but the end result is going to be really fun.

I wanted to post today, because Your Heart has a show tonight at Supermarket in Toronto.  They also released their new album, Autumn, and a free companion EP, Fall.   Both are amazing!  Check them out.

More pictures to come.

Before the holidays, the Toronto Strobist Group met in the studio for a fun shoot. My job ended up being to organize our models for the day, so I put up an ad on Craigslist and found these two girls. They’re in a band called SidePonyNation, and they were hilarious.  So much energy and lots of fun to work with. They were posing even before we had the lights set up.

You can see more pictures on Flickr.

I’m catching up on all of my editing for class, so I’ll post more pictures soon.

Before the show, the band and I took a walk around the venue and took some quick pictures.

The album was released yesterday, and you can check it out here.

Here are some pictures we took the other night for his show/album promo.  There are more pictures on Flickr.

These pictures were taken in a nearly pitch black schoolyard with a bare SB-600 flash on a stand camera right.

He’s about to release his new album, called “Summer“, under the name “Your Heart”.  I took these pictures earlier this week at the studio where he’s getting ready to film 2 kids’ music videos with his band next week.  I cannot keep track of how many bands Andrew is in or how many albums he is currently working on.  There are a lot.

He’s having a CD/Video release party on September 1st, the details of which you can find on Facebook, here.  The “Video Release” part of the party is for the song “In the Sun” from the album.  Wendelfilm created the video back in June, and I helped produce it!

Here’s a teaser:

And here are some shots from this week.

Here are some shots of the fans.   More pictures are on Flickr.

The last shot was featured on The Daily Photoist last week.