The very cool and multi-talented musician, Robbie Connolly, or if you want his stage name, it’s Robert Loud, or, if you want to just address his hair, it’s Hair Majesty (his hair doesn’t really have a name, but maybe it should and it should be Hair Majesty.
Robbie is working on new music and came to the studio to be photographed, accompanied by his wife, the also very cool Caitlin Connolly.
Caitlin had very specific ideas about what she was looking for and how she wanted these portraits to look. Her most specific request was that the whole thing be shot on film. And while I cut my teeth learning about photography back in the film days, long before anyone had heard of a digital camera, and while I still shoot film on a regular basis both for myself and for clients, it has been a few years since I shot an entire job on film, without shooting a single shot on digital. I was happy that’s what they were looking for and excited to go for it. It was also a bit like a tight-wire act, without being able to see a single frame that we had shot. .
The pictures were taken at my studio in Provo, UT. I shot four rolls of Kodak TMax 400, and the camera I used was the good old Contax G2 with both a 50mm lens and a 28mm lens, which I’ve had since back in the day when I would shoot a whole job on that thing.
Thanks Robbie for hiring me to make some album art for you, thanks Caitlin for being an inspired guide and art director through this, and thanks Scout Smith for assisting that day. We make a great team, the four of us.