Last night was Greg Laswells cd release show at The Hotel Cafe which was amazing! On another note If you are taking an American Airlines flight at any point make sure you look out for there online magazine a photo I did of Rainn Wilson is on the cover. It’s a pretty fun B&W shot, let me know if you see it and send me a cool photo of yourself holding it!

I will try to get a copy up here so everyone can see it as for now here is a photo of Mr. Rainn Wilson

This is a photo of Rainn Wilson.

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It’s Friday everyone is starting to head to the big dance Sundance is just getting really started and some of the new movie are getting ready to play I am excited to see CHOKE from the writer of Fight Club I hear it is amazing hopefully it hits theaters very very soon as for movies coming out today JJ ABRAMS Cloverfield also 27 Dresses and Katie Holmes first movie since the baby Mad Money also comes out today … Also today Bobby Fischer the chess champion died out of nowhere I had no idea how crazy he was but I just saw him on tv talking about how he hates the US and it seems he was in a cult in the 80’s and that he was banned from The US! I guess Chess is rock n roll!

This is an old photo from way back that I never released but I just found it in the Vault so I thought I would let it see the light of day.
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Ben Foster has a new film he is working on the film Birds of America looks like its going to be a big one for Ben who has been in some great stuff lately I can’t think of anyone who deserves it more. The film also stars Hilary Swank Ginnifer Goodwin and Matthew Perry
Directed by Craig Lucas
Writen by Elyse Friedman

Also I should have some more behind the scenes videos coming soon!

Plot Outline:
A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life as well as making amends for the trouble his free spirited sister and brother   cause about town.

This is a photo of Ben Foster check him out in Alpha Dog right now on HBO

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Day 3 of new photo week keeps going and this is a photo I never released from way back when this shoot was intense we were on a crazy street corner in downtown and this car made like 3 passes around the block finally on the 4th pass the car pulled up and said how much then just as that happened they drove off as the police flashed there lights on the girls (who are not hookers by the way) and our security had to wave the first cop car off then explain to the second cop car that we were doing a shoot but I guess the best part of that is everyone was convinced that these girls were hookers…Some sort of hot French hookers who stand around smoking cigarettes HA.

These girls are not hookers but this shoot was crazy and make sure you check back tomorrow for New photo week as there are more to come and we are not even half way through new photo week!

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So there will be a New photo everyday this week! I am going to try and release a new photo for 7 days in a row this week I have a mix of some old and some new some of the old ones are ones I never released but I am excited for them to come out I will try my best to keep you updated on whats old and what’s new and also give stories behind each of the photos… So that being said make sure you check back everyday to see the new photo of the day there are some crazy ones in here and I can not wait to get them out!

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This is a photo of French Actress Sandy Lakdar but it just has that 70’s feel to me so it will be known as 1976 for now!

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My Chemical Romance front man Gerard Way was married about a month ago congrats to him on that!
It has been a while since I blogged this photo of My Chemical Romance front man Gerard Way this was shot almost a year ago on Halloween at the magic Castle which was an amazing shoot and an amazing day I dont know what I can do to top it this year but something has to be done MCR has come out with a ton of music videos and there record did very well I get hundreds of emails and links everyday from My Chemical Romance fans all over the world asking for more photos Click here to see more of My Chemical Romance tylershields.com

This is a photo of My Chemical Romance front man Gerard Way. My Chemical Romance has the most watched music video on Youtube “Famous Last words make sure you check that out.
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System of a Down front man Serj Tankian starts off his tour tonight he will be in NY city tonight but his first offical show is October 12th at the vic theater in Chicago if your in Chicago make sure you check him out then after that he hits Toronto and on and on he will be on tour for a long while so I am sure he is coming to a city near you very soon Soooo if your a big System of A Down fan this tour is for you to get your fix!

This is a photo I did of System of a Down front man Serj Tankian Click on the photo to make it bigger.

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Crazy last 2 days I just finished doing a lot of shoots some really fun stuff but now it is deadline time a bunch of features and one cover all have to be turned in this week. For any of you young photographers out there something that is very important when you start working with magazines is FTP it is where you upload the files straight to the magazine via the internet saves time and money so get yourself an ftp client either cute ftp or any of those kind some are free some are like 39.99. Also something else that is very important is File management getting proper file names and right formats to the client. The proper file type for Print is CMYK TIFF that is what all the printers use for your portfolio you want to use RGB TIFF these are very important things that will make you look a lot more professional to your clients. If you do have to give your client the files on disk Use the blank DVD-R’s with no logos on the front keep them simple and sleek and you will be all good depending on how big your job is sometimes you can have 40 gigs of photos this is where you need an external hard drive that you bill to the client then deliver the photos on that and your good to go but make sure you always BACK UP YOUR WORK!

This is Josh Henderson from Desperate Housewives check it out tonight.
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I was out about in the Rain tonight I went to a 70s showing of photography at the shooting gallery a lot of Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol photos from the 70s the whole show was B and W which was nice. The shooting gallery is an art gallery on Sunset BLVD right by guitar center the owner Bobby is an awesome guy and they always have great showings of some real classic stuff so if you ever get a chance stop in and tell him I sent you… It was a great night I ran into Tara Ivy who is a model I shot years upon years ago she is super amazing and was one of the first people on myspace back in the old days while I was talking to Tara 2 girls (I wont say there names) came up and said hello to me and that they read the blog every day! They were such sweet girls  and it was awesome to meet them, I love meeting nice people like that!

Seeing all of those rock n roll photos tonight made me think of this photo…

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So this is the new photo of System of A Down front man Serj Tankian. System of A Down is on a break and while on break Serj has his new solo project coming out very soon you have to check it out if you like System of A Down you will love his solo record Serj was amazing to work with and such a great guy This shoot was awesome I mean how often do you get to crash 2 cars head on in your life without getting hurt…There will be more coming in a crazy celeb series I am working on crazy crashes and disasters. Click below and let me know what you think of Serj and System of A down.

This is a photo of System of A Down front man Serj Tankian

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