Category: Commercial & Headshots

This last week, one of my coolest jobs was for my good friend, James Conlee.  If you don’t know him, he used to sing on Broadway and now sings and produces many music CDs.  In fact, I think this is the 9th CD I’ve designed for him.

This project was another Wasatch Christmas CD featuring James, my friend Ryan Shupe, and many other local artists.

I feel very honored to have been able to use an incredible painting in the design.  It was painted by another one of our friends also named James….James Christensen.  The painting is called “Evening Angels“ and is absolutely gorgeous.  To check on availability on this and other of his images, check out GreenwichWorkshop.com.

This is the painting above.  I adapted this painting for the CD design with the artist’s permission, however I won’t post the finished design or cover right now.  I’ll let it be a surprise.  I am very excited about the results and know that you will love it!

As a special gift to my Christmas clients, I will have some copies of this album to give you with your orders.

In conjunction with the CD, James Conlee will be producing his Wasatch Christmas concert this year as well.  More info about the concert will be on the radio and I’ll post info on it too, when I get it.

Until next time, America!
— Bry

What a show!  Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand played on Friday night at the Sandy Amphitheater to a packed house, and it was awesome!  It is always nice when the band has a local, in-state show, and this show in particular was to kick off their new album, Last Man Standing.

Here are some of the images I did of their concert that night.

I also did the shoot for their latest album, which can be seen here.  If you haven’t heard them in concert, you should.  Their shows have so much energy and are absolutely amazing!  It is very refreshing to see musicians that actually play instruments, and who are super proficient at them as well.

And check out their new album and let me know what you think.

Until next time, America!
— Bry

Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand have a new album coming out in a few days. The photo shoot was a lot of fun, and I was curious to see how the record label would use the images in the final layout.

Having seen the final layout, I can tell you that it will look cool! Here is a sneak peak of the cover.

I think it has a cool vibe to it and I’m excited to hear the final tracks.

I love photographing bands. Those kinds of shoots allow me to be the most creative and try completely new things. They are also very exhausting, because like many commercial shoots, they are an all day gig without any breaks.

For this photo shoot we even built some amazing sets too, so it would look like we were in an old hotel’s narrow hallway.

Some of those ‘hotel’ images are on the group’s website as the headers, like this image below.

Go to their site and hit refresh a few times and check out the different header images. And while you are there, buy an early copy of the CD so you get a signed copy, and check out the tour dates coming up, and watch some of their fun videos.

If you go to any concerts, come say hi to me! 🙂

Until next time America,
— Bry

Some years ago, Utah Governor Leavitt made April 18th, the official “Joe McQueen Day” in Utah. Joe is infamous to jazz musicians in Utah — an absolute legend. He has played Jazz in Utah professionally since his 20’s, and is about to turn 90 next month.

Throughout that time, Joe has played with the absolute pinnacle leaders of the jazz movement: Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Chet Baker, to name a few.

Joe and I met years ago while I was playing the tenor sax in my jazz group in college, and because of that friendship had the privilege of doing some portraits of him recently.

Joe still plays regularly in the clubs of Ogden, and today being ‘Joe McQueen Day,’ he’ll be playing tonight at the Wine Cellar, located at 2550 Washington Blvd starting at 9:00 pm.

Back in the day, Ogden, Utah was one of the biggest hubs for Jazz east of the Mississippi, and Joe was right in the middle of it all. I feel honored to know him, to be able to create such emotional portraits of him, and am very excited to take my date tonight to see him play in downtown Ogden.For my readers that live in Utah, if you are free tonight and love jazz music, you should come down and see a jazz legend perform on his day, in the old jazz district that he loves.Until next time America!
–Bry

Many people may not know that I do quite a bit of commercial work. Not just the photography, but the design work and printing as well — from bands and cd work, to business cards, to billboards and large vinal banners, for car dealerships, real estate agents, and others. These companies like the fact that I have very competitive pricing on all types of printing, while keeping the quality high.

Here is a recent job I did which can be seen hanging on this doctor’s building in Holladay. I’m doing some more work for this orthodontist this week, so thought I’d post this on my blog for you all to see.

This orthodontist specialized in a new kind of braces where the teeth are first computer modeled, and then the wire for the braces is bent by a robot. It speeds up the time in which you wear braces.

This robot for this image is actually a 14 inch tall toy made by Sony. I photographed each individually, then after some extensive work putting the two together, produced this banner which stands about 20 feel tall and looks amazing, even up close.

Notice how even the robot casts a perfect shadow on the doctor. Very cool! 🙂

Well, until next time America.
— Bry