PATTERNS AND TONES

"The Loudmouths at Mr. Bing's" 1996  Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas  14 x 11"  © Julie Pavlowski Green It was only yesterday that I took a stroll around North Beach in San Francisco with The Loudmouths, looking for great backdrops to shoot them in front of for various upcoming singles they had coming out. We would walk every few steps past the strip clubs and dirty alleyways and they would oblige me by standing in front of The Garden of Eden or The Lusty Lady . A trip around Chinatown and then back down Columbus Street where we ended the night at Mr. Bing's , an old man bar near Jack Kerouac Alley.  If you are looking for straight up fast rocking music, these kids are the real deal! The Loudmouths have a way of grabbing you by the hair the moment they start playing and keep you enthralled straight through their fast and furious set.   This interview is accompanied by some unseen shots that have been locked up in my Archives w...

BACKDROPS Shooting the backdrops are the next exciting step to this paper project puzzle I've been working on this year. A lot of prep work but I know the results will be well worth the effort. In camera, on the spot results make working so much quicker than the way I used to shoot with Polaroids. Shooting my Nikon D800 in live mode gives me the opportunity view the set up and frame the shot, making set up time minimal. 8 set ups with 4 frontispieces and 4 backdrops. It would also be a good time to shoot the 8 shadows that I will eventually cast about the dancers but I haven't picked them out yet. I will decide on the objects at a later date, once I have placed the dancers into the backdrops. Shooting them on a plain white backdrop in the box, I surmise I will play around with the forms the shadows make in juxtaposition to the dancers in post production. But at hand is the process of photographing the backdrops and making a final selection. I start with the spi...