David Bergman — ALL ACCESS — sports, concert, and music photographer

This past week I made portraits of the band Houston Calls. Since the guys are based in New Jersey, they agreed to come in to New York City for the shoot.

I originally wanted to photograph them in the park where I shot Armor For Sleep. But when I met them, we decided it would be more fun to stand in the middle of a major city street.

I set up my lights on the median in the middle of Broadway and just hoped that we wouldn’t get busted for not having a permit.

I put warming gels on two SB800’s and dialed my camera’s white balance to compensate. As I’ve discussed before, this “normalizes” the light on the guys while turning the background a cold blue.

I processed my RAW files in Aperture and did some tweaking in Photoshop to get the final image.

Despite a few comments from passersby and a couple of honking horns, the shoot went off without incident.

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