There's a new Bob in town!

You may remember that I did a photo session with The Bobs back in January (blog post). Well, as it often goes, after doing a set of photos the line up in the band changes. Amy Bob has moved back to the East coast to attend graduate school at Columbia and to write music for broadway musicals. Angie "Bob" Doctor is joining the group. I can't wait to see the new lineup on stage. Check their site to see if they're coming to a theater near you. It sounds like both Amy and Angie will be at some of the upcoming shows.

The Bobs are always fun to work with. In the last session Matthew Bob showed up with bags of fruit. Today it was cases of musical instruments.

We needed to do a new group photo. But we also needed to match some individual photos from the last session. I have to wonder if they warned Angie beforehand what she was in for with the "bobbing" photo in the fish tank (which I didn't show last time)...

Angie "Bob" Doctor

And the water photos. I believe that the credit for the concept of "the Bobs go Bobbing" goes to photographer Michelle Bates during a backstage conversation at the Moisture Festival. Matthew Bob talked everyone into participating, and I just got to make some fun photographs, as you can see here...

Dan

Matthew

Angie

Richard

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For the photographers following along, the lighting for the group photo was a 7' sliver Paul Buff (Alien Bees) parabolic umbrella as the fill light, a 60" Photek Softlighter II to camera left as the main light, and a Westcott 12x50 strip bank from behind on camera left. Flash power packs were Speedotron 805 boxes with a mix of Speedotron heads.

For Angie's head shot and the water photos I used a Photoflex Medium Silverdome NXT with a Speedotron Force 5 monolight.

Meet The Bobs

Many of you have probably known The Bobs longer than I have, but for a few of you, this may be an introduction. The Bobs are a great a cappella group who I recently got to work with on new publicity photos. I've been holding them back, but they recently released this on on their Facebook page, so you get to see it here, too...

 

Dan "Bob" Schumacher, Amy "Bob" Englehardt,

Richard "Bob" Greene, and Matthew "Bob" Stull

Here are a few individual head shots:

 

Come out and see The Bobs at the Moisture Festival where they are described thusly, "This is not your run-of-the-mill a cappella quartet -- not by a long shot. Now in its third decade of musical mayhem, The Bobs’ Grammy-nominated musical gymnastics combine astounding vocal agility, deliciously ridiculous original pieces, and wildly imaginative arrangements of tunes by the likes of the Doors, Kurt Weill and the Beatles."