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Hey ATLANTA! I’m going to be in town soon and I’m running specials on shoots! Bookings available from May 11-20! Contact me for more details! #atlanta #photography

Hey ATLANTA! I’m going to be in town soon and I’m running specials on shoots! Bookings available from May 11-20! Contact me for more details! #atlanta #photography

CNN iReport : Disney Firsts

Hey guys, here’s a fun thing I guess I do!  In September 2011 leading up to the 40th anniversary of Walt Disney World I got asked by a producer at CNN to write an iReport about the parks.  It was a ton of fun and BONUS, you get to see a picture of a golden haired 3 year old me!

Click here to read the first iReport!

Well another producer over there emailed me yesterday and asked me to write a new report in the wake of Annette Funicello’s passing.  This one focuses on the ears that she helped make famous.  So the main link in this blog is that article but both are linked here.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEW iREPORT!

My friend Adam makes the photo-of-the-wing-of-the-plane photo we all invariably take look better than it ever has before.  You ought to follow him on both his Tumblogs for general visual awesomeness.  He’s a truly talented photographer: http://schultzin.it http://ultrawide.schultzin.it/

My friend Adam makes the photo-of-the-wing-of-the-plane photo we all invariably take look better than it ever has before.  You ought to follow him on both his Tumblogs for general visual awesomeness.  He’s a truly talented photographer:

http://schultzin.it

http://ultrawide.schultzin.it/

WAX : Continue

Remember when I posted the 2012 Year in Photos entry?  I said I’d post WAX’s album cover when it was released to the world?  Here it is, and the front page of www.waxdotcom.com is pretty Austen Risolvato Photography centric, I shot both photos there.  I also found the album on the front page when I opened the iTunes store this morning.

He’s a phenomenally talented artist, and a really fantastic human.  I love working with him and his management team.  I’m pretty grateful about the tread the album cover (and obviously excited for him about the tread the album itself is getting) is getting on the internets.  I’m grateful that I got to work with him.  

If you have even the slightest inclination toward hip hop you need to get this album which can be done at either of these links:

http://www.waxdotcom.com 

Continue on iTunes

Photos of Jon Danovic : Director, Editor, Visual Awesome Creator

In the continued pursuit of the project I’m telling you as little about as possible (until it’s finished), I photographed Jon Danovic.  Here are some outtakes from that shoot.  He’s a master of his craft with a phenomenal eye for the moving image.  If you’re a fan of The All-American Rejects you’ve already seen his work as he’s done the videos that populated their YouTube channel during 2012.  He also directed the music videos for Someday’s Gone, Kids in the Street, Walk Over Me, and Heartbeat Slowing Down (lyric video).  The latter on this list is one of the the most visually stunning moving images I’ve ever seen set to music.  More from this when the project is completed.

Get to know his eye here:  http://www.jondanovic.com and http://www.youtube.com/AMRMusic1

Flash Back Friday style.  The Remus Lupins at the Verity Room in 2008. Fun things are coming in the land of Austen Risolvato Photography, next week the new version of www.austen.la will launch!  The next few days mark the first shoots in the project that will consume most of my year, can’t wait to fill you guys in when it’s time.  Shooting a music video tonight with a very talented artist named Matt Palmer, and wAx’s album Continue is coming out on Tuesday!  Check out his site to see the album cover here: www.waxdotcom.com  2013 is off to a great start!

Flash Back Friday style.  The Remus Lupins at the Verity Room in 2008.

Fun things are coming in the land of Austen Risolvato Photography, next week the new version of www.austen.la will launch!  The next few days mark the first shoots in the project that will consume most of my year, can’t wait to fill you guys in when it’s time.  Shooting a music video tonight with a very talented artist named Matt Palmer, and wAx’s album Continue is coming out on Tuesday!  Check out his site to see the album cover here: www.waxdotcom.com  2013 is off to a great start!

Seasonally Fickle Love: Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia stands abandoned and alone for the winter.  The amusement park, unlike some of its cousins is closed during the colder months.  The cotton candy sky carries the sun west across the South behind it.

Seasonally Fickle Love:

Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia stands abandoned and alone for the winter.  The amusement park, unlike some of its cousins is closed during the colder months.  The cotton candy sky carries the sun west across the South behind it.

My Atlanta: I’m still in the South for the holidays, and I decided to document the city I knew, that I grew up in, one photo at a time.  This is the Plaza Theatre.  It was the cool, independent movie theater I preferred growing up.  I saw Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet here, about 10 times when it came out.  As I got older the bar attached was a stomping ground for a long time.  This is part of the Virginia Highlands portion of my adolescence. 

My Atlanta:

I’m still in the South for the holidays, and I decided to document the city I knew, that I grew up in, one photo at a time.  This is the Plaza Theatre.  It was the cool, independent movie theater I preferred growing up.  I saw Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet here, about 10 times when it came out.  As I got older the bar attached was a stomping ground for a long time.  This is part of the Virginia Highlands portion of my adolescence. 

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone out there has a wonderful holiday with the folks they love the most. Love, Austen Risolvato

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone out there has a wonderful holiday with the folks they love the most.

Love,

Austen Risolvato

2012: A Year in Photos

This year was a wonderful journey in art for me.  This collection of photographs by no means covers everything that I shot.  It certainly doesn’t do justice to everyone who did me the honor of allowing me to take their photograph.  Some things I’ve shot can’t be posted yet because of their role in album artwork, or were never intended for mass consumption, etc.  What is here is a sample of some of my favorite shots of the year.

This year definitely had some nostalgic tones to it photographically.  I hadn’t shot the All-American Rejects in a few years till March, but it was wonderful to get back to doing so regularly.  They’re such wonderful people and so very much fun to shoot.  Obviously I’ve photographed Alex Carpenter quite a bit this year as well, which again, it had been a while since I’d done so.  Working with friends is more fun than I can have anywhere, except Disneyland.  I haven’t shot Daughtry since April 2010, what a wonderful way to cap off the live concert element of my photos for the year.  I am so fortunate for having had the opportunity to travel with them as much as I did.

In February Porcelain Black and I did a shoot which we’re finally starting to let out into the world in small portions.  Here’s two more of those shots, probably our second most fun shoot to date (I’d say the white trash roof top shoot in New Orleans was the most fun - but that was 2011).  

The very talented wAx is here as well.  We shot new promo shots - which are here, and his new album package, which is not.  Next year you’ll get to see those photos when his new album Continue comes out.

I started working on a few new series, two of which are represented here, sort of.  The Disneyland project isn’t going to be posted until I’ve finished it, however other photos of the park are here.  They include a couple photos of my friend’s son on his first trip to the park.  Watching him discover the magic was so incredible, I was flattered to be asked to a part of such a special day with someone I’ve known and loved my whole life, she’s like a sister to me.  Neighboring Forestation, the accidental series of my closest friends.  This has been so much fun and I can’t wait to continue it in the new year, but those that have graced this blog already, Philippe, Ryan, Alex, and Colleen are represented in that collection image.

I’ve been photographing people I shoot on stage with their pets at home for a while now.  The shoot I did with Nick Wheeler and his dog Dexter was so much fun.  It was great because we’d been talking about it for over a year and finally got to do so.  The timing on that was fortunate because the All-American Rejects are teaming up with Petfinder.com to help animals like Dex find their forever homes.  So here are a few shots from the day as well as the ads for Petfinder.

Included here as well are photos of the very talented Matt Palmer, my friend Pfc Sanchez on his Harley - newly returned safely from Afghanistan, Hyla (Host of The Daily Buzz), and my friend Shawn.

Looking back over this entry, and at these photographs I am overwhelmed with a feeling of gratitude that this is my life and my work.  Thank you, because anyone who cares even the slightest about the work I do makes it possible for me to do it.  What a wonderful year in photography, thanks for those of you on the ride with me and who support me year after year.  Here’s to the next one!

Christening a New Camera Body & Going “Home”

During the formative years of Daughtry I photographed them, for them, a lot.  I helped them build the beginning of their road photo catalog and it was a lot of fun.  Being there at the embryonic stages of a band and documenting the first part of that ride with them was a lot of fun.  I haven’t shot them since April 2010.  Last night was great fun.  Getting in front of them with a lens again and seeing friends I used to tour with was like time travel.  

It was also the first show on my new camera body.  The body I just retired/relocated to back up made its concert/tour debut at a Daughtry show in December 2007 in Nashville, TN.  That body served me well and went on a great many tours and to a few countries with me, I hope that christening the new one with these guys yet again brings good things to it. 

The band’s line up has changed a bit since I was touring with them.  This is the first of a couple entries with shots from this show - I chose to focus on the three guys I toured with for this one.  They’re wonderful people and it brought a big smile to my face to see them and the crew guys that I lived on busses with last night.  

They also brought a very talented fan on stage to sing with them for their hit song “Home”, she blew it away!  I was at front of house with my friends, we were shocked.  So that’s who the girl on stage is.  Chris let her sing the bulk of the verses solo due to her talent.  She certainly had the ability to hold her own and he recognized that.

What a lovely night with great people I’m fortunate enough to have shared a portion of my life and journey with.

Logan:  December 2012, West Los Angeles. This is my friend Logan, expect to see more of him here in the New Year.  I really love his style, as such, I’ll be shooting him more.

Logan:  December 2012, West Los Angeles.

This is my friend Logan, expect to see more of him here in the New Year.  I really love his style, as such, I’ll be shooting him more.

Talk Analog to Me As the year draws to a close I go through the photography related files that have collected and relocate them to external drives where they don’t need to be regularly accessed anymore.  I was going through an older drive and stumbled on some scans of negatives.  They’re from photo shoots I did in high school.  Mostly of my friends who were kind enough to be my models as I felt my way around the trade that would ultimately take over my life. I really love film, I mean really love it.  I should shoot it more than I do.  It’s hard in a digital world to keep up if you only shoot film.  It’s cheaper for my clients for me to shoot digital, and more profitable for me.  On the rare occasion I’ll convince someone that it should be done, but those times are fewer and further between than they used to be.   The next few entries will focus on those early shoots, I believe these are all from my senior year, when film was still the industry standard.  I know that because it seems so common place now, and the technology is so advanced that it seems like digital photography has been around forever, but it hasn’t.  Canon released the 10D in 2003, which was my first DSLR.  It was also the first true DSLR released by Canon that could keep up with my standard subject matter - concerts.  I got mine in October of that year.  But I started shooting in 1998.  That gave me five solid years, even one in art school, of film learning and schooling.  This first shot is of my friend from ballet and high school, Keri. We danced together and went to school together.  I spent the better part of my recreational time for more than a decade dancing, so did she.  There was a great abandoned steel plant in Atlanta where I used to shoot bands.  I got the idea that photographing a ballerina there would be fun too.  So we did.  Kodak had just introduced the Portra line of film so this was shot on a 1947 Leica IIIc with Portra 400NC. My new years resolution has already been decided, to spend more time shooting film.  More of my personal projects will be shot on film, and to spend even more time than that in my sanctuary, the dark room.  So for the next few entries, talk analog to me. 

Talk Analog to Me

As the year draws to a close I go through the photography related files that have collected and relocate them to external drives where they don’t need to be regularly accessed anymore.  I was going through an older drive and stumbled on some scans of negatives.  They’re from photo shoots I did in high school.  Mostly of my friends who were kind enough to be my models as I felt my way around the trade that would ultimately take over my life.

I really love film, I mean really love it.  I should shoot it more than I do.  It’s hard in a digital world to keep up if you only shoot film.  It’s cheaper for my clients for me to shoot digital, and more profitable for me.  On the rare occasion I’ll convince someone that it should be done, but those times are fewer and further between than they used to be.  

The next few entries will focus on those early shoots, I believe these are all from my senior year, when film was still the industry standard.  I know that because it seems so common place now, and the technology is so advanced that it seems like digital photography has been around forever, but it hasn’t.  Canon released the 10D in 2003, which was my first DSLR.  It was also the first true DSLR released by Canon that could keep up with my standard subject matter - concerts.  I got mine in October of that year.  But I started shooting in 1998.  That gave me five solid years, even one in art school, of film learning and schooling. 

This first shot is of my friend from ballet and high school, Keri. We danced together and went to school together.  I spent the better part of my recreational time for more than a decade dancing, so did she.  There was a great abandoned steel plant in Atlanta where I used to shoot bands.  I got the idea that photographing a ballerina there would be fun too.  So we did.  Kodak had just introduced the Portra line of film so this was shot on a 1947 Leica IIIc with Portra 400NC.

My new years resolution has already been decided, to spend more time shooting film.  More of my personal projects will be shot on film, and to spend even more time than that in my sanctuary, the dark room.  So for the next few entries, talk analog to me. 

My Life of Yester Year Self portrait for my Intro to Photo Final at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the Fall of 2001.  Shot on a 35MM Canon Rebel G with Ilford Delta 3200.  Ballet and photography were, at this point in my life, the two driving forces.  This is also, I believe one of the last photos taken of my back before I got the whole thing tattooed.  

My Life of Yester Year

Self portrait for my Intro to Photo Final at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the Fall of 2001.  Shot on a 35MM Canon Rebel G with Ilford Delta 3200.  Ballet and photography were, at this point in my life, the two driving forces.  This is also, I believe one of the last photos taken of my back before I got the whole thing tattooed.  

Faces Of The Apocalypse:

By now, I’m sure you’ve surmised that a zombie video was shot.  Here’s a few looks at the folks who tried to eat and or kill Alex in the video.  Watch out they might want your brains.