{"id":685,"date":"2012-11-20T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickspicscorner.com\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2012-11-20T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:03:17","slug":"death-metal-and-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/death-metal-and-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Metal and Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2006 I started a website called elemental-metal.com.\u00a0 It was an online metal music magazine that I pretty much ran myself.\u00a0 My earliest photography was of concerts to which I was getting photo passes.\u00a0 I wasn’t very good with my camera at that point, but it reawakened the artist in me.\u00a0 I had to stop in 2009 as the website was becoming too difficult to manage and I wasn’t making any money from it.<\/p>\n

Since then, as you may or may not know, I have been studying art – first at Lonestar College and now at the University of Houston, which has really shifted my focus.\u00a0 Concert photography just kinda fell by the wayside as I focused on developing my artistic vision (and photographing professional and college sporting events).<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago I got to see a really cool local band (Dead Trip is the name) and took my DSLR into the club with me.\u00a0 It felt so awesome to be just going back to my original motivation.\u00a0 The fact that the band knows how to bring it (and had the biggest crowd all night) was icing on the cake.\u00a0 It really makes me want to do this more often, except this time under not so much pressure.\u00a0 You can see my favorite below.\u00a0 You gotta love a woman who can do death metal vocals better than most male death metal vocalists.<\/p>\n

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Meet Janis Walker of the band Dead Trip.\u00a0 I hope soon I can have more concert pics in my catalog soon as my skills with the camera continue to grow.<\/p>\n

You can check out some of my early shots with my DSLR by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2006 I started a website called elemental-metal.com.\u00a0 It was an online metal music magazine that I pretty much ran myself.\u00a0 My earliest photography was of concerts to which I was getting photo passes.\u00a0 I wasn’t very good with my camera at that point, but it reawakened the artist in me.\u00a0 I had to stop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}