Casey Templeton Photography

As a senior at James Madison University, I had the opportunity to sit in on a video production class for the semester where we produced MACRoCkumentary which explores the The Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference (MACRoCk).  MACRoCk is the annual celebration of college radio and the independent music community held at JMU and is happening next week, April 1-2, 2011. Check it out.

Below are a few images I took during the weekend along with the MACRoCkumentary.

I had the opportunity to photograph a great Virginia-based band, Louisiana Territory (myspace | Twitter | Facebook). Their new album is called, “Traces of Gold” so I worked with coordinator, Rob Jefferson, and stylist Molly Todd, to capture images that carried the “Traces of Gold” theme.

You can read The Richmond Scene‘s review of their album here: “Trace of Gold” Review on TRS.  And you can read more about the details of the shoot below.

The guys wanted to stay away from typical band photography and were willing to try almost anything. This gave me the freedom to incorporate unconventional methods and experiment with some new ideas. (more…)