Wednesday, May 20, 2015

ASUW A&E Show 2015 - Rae Sremmurd

As the school year winds to an end in the next few weeks, the UW student government, the Associated Students of the University of Washington (or ASUW for short), puts on a spring concert called the ASUW A&E Show. This year, some of the acts were SZA, A-Trak and Rae Sremmurd. While I hadn't heard of all of the acts, I knew I wanted to try my hand at concert photography!

When I got there, the HUB lawn was filled with people! Some people had gotten there quite early to make sure they had a spot up front against the rail.


The show opened with SZA, an upcoming alternative artist.




Once the show started, everyone was on their feet and enjoying their time at the concert. I couldn't believe how many people had showed up for this.





Rae Sremmurd followed and was the biggest artist at the event. 












One thing that was difficult about photographing this is that these guys MOVE! They didn't stop moving around the stage for their entire performance. The hardest part was making sure that their eyes were in focus, which was hard because the mic was always moving in front of their faces, which didn't let me grab focus too easily.







During the last couple songs, they started pulling people from the crowd on-stage with them.




It was awesome being up so close to the event and being able to photograph the up and coming artists that are always at this event!



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Friday, May 15, 2015

Red Square Car Show

For the last 8 years, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Washington has put on their Red Square Charity Car Show, which benefits PAWS, a group whose goal is
"rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people."

The show takes place at Red Square and the entire place is filled with cars for this event!




The event takes place with people's cars from around Seattle and Washington to come to this event. 

A lot of the cars were new, but there were some old classics there too.





With that, there's a ton of variety and probably every brand of luxury/sports car you can imagine.














A lot of the cars had their hoods popped open so you could see their massive engines in the cars. The Lamborghini engine was my favorite because it was brightly colored, which was a unique touch.












I loved trying to capture the cars in a slightly different way from one another. Some of the cars had amazingly sleek body styles and you could just tell how fast and powerful they were from their design.








I really loved shooting the backs of the cars and capturing the cool different tail lights and rear design.






About halfway through while I was there. I heard a buzzing in the sky. I looked up and saw some kind of DJI Phantom, which is a quadcopter equipped with a camera for video and photo capture. I couldn't help but think how cool it would be to capture the cars from above, but it also scared me to think about flying it and accidentally crashing it onto one of these very expensive cars!


Notice the quadcopter up in the right corner of the photo flying right above the cars.

Doesn't this make you want to have a couple of these cars to drive around on a nice sunny day? 

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Sean Brown is a nationally featured high school senior photographer based out of Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR. If you're interested in booking a session or would like more information, please use the contact link on his website. Sean is now booking sessions for the Class of 2016.


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