Photos: Building 429, WinterJam 2012

Building 429 hit the stage next. Lead singer Jason Roy has one of the most distinctive voices in the industry. Their set was straight up rock worship.

Building 429 photo set after the jump.

Photos: Group 1 Crew, WinterJam 2012

Group 1 Crew was up next. Ever hear of the Black-eye Peas? Well if you like them, you will LOVE Group 1 Crew. This was my first opportunity to see them and I really enjoyed the amazing vocals and impressive choreography.

Group 1 Crew photo set after the jump.

Photos: Dara Maclean, Winterjam 2012

Dara Maclean followed For King and Country on this 10 band WinterJam 2012 tour. This is the second time I have had the opportunity to see her and her music and sound is really growing on me. She sounded like she has been heavily influenced by singers like Adele; her voice was smooth and her songs powerful.

Dara Maclean photo set after the jump

Photos: For King And Country, WinterJam 2012

For King and Country was next up on the Winterjam 2012 tour. Billboard Magazine named them 1 of 17 artists to watch for in 2012 and American Songwriter raves they are “Australia’s answer to Coldplay,” which is a great description of their Brit-rock tinged worship said Kevin Davis from NewReleaseTuesday.com.

For King and Country photo set after the jump.

Photos: We As Human, Winterjam 2012

Having covered the Rock&Worship Road Show,  I really wanted to check out WinterJam as well. This year I took the 2.5 hr drive up to Penn State and it was worth every moment on the road.

We As Human opened WinterJam 2012 this year with a vibrant sound and screaming guitar riffs. A great opener.

We As Human photo set after the jump.

Anderson Grove Band Portraits

I did my first ever band portrait shoot a couple weeks ago for Anderson Grove. They are our church’s worship band..great musicians and all around great guys. They are in the process of recording a record, CD, Mp3′s..or whatever you call’em these days

As this was my first shoot, I’d love to get your comments and thoughts about some of the images I was able to make.

Lightroom 3 Custom Develop Settings Tutorial

In a previous post, Lightroom 3 custom metadata templates, I showed you how you can easily create a metadata template and apply it to every one of your images upon import.

In this post I wanted to share with you another setting that I apply to every image upon import as well. Develop Settings. These are settings that I used to find myself going back to all the time with in the Develop module.

Lightroom 3 Custom Metadata Template Tutorial

In my workflow, I have a pre-created a metadata template as well as a starting Develop Setting that I apply to all my images during import. The metadata template includes all of my copyright and contact information. The Develop Setting I’ll share in another post, but here is how to create a custom metadata template you can apply to all you images upon import.

Lightroom an upcoming series

This year I really wanted to start sharing, what I hope to be, some valuable info to this site. Many of you are photographers really interested in (or already are) shooting shows. I wanted to share the process I go through to process my images to be posted at NewReleaseTuesday.com as well as here at CollidePhoto.

Concert Photographers I follow

When I first got into concert photography I had no idea where to start, but through some searching and a little social media (mainly Twitter) I came across some of who have been come the concert photographers I religiously follow now.