One week after the semifinals cut the number of contestants in half to only six lucky survivors, Rock the Web held the finals of their inaugural season singing competition. Following different rules than the semifinals, this time online votes from friends and supporters couldn’t help the contestants. It was all up to the judges this time, and the first three rounds would see one contestant eliminated each round, leaving three contestants to compete in a final round. There were three […]
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Rock the Web Sanlitun Photo Shoot
A few days after shooting the semifinals of Chinese singing competition Rock the Web’s first season, I took the six finalists to Sanlitun Village for some ‘glamour shots’ to use as publicity for the competition. Uta, the eventual winner of the competition, was out of town that day, so I shot her pictures a couple of days later when she returned (she is the one in the red dress in the last several pictures, which were some of my favorites). […]
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Two weeks after returning from the incredibly exciting Las Vegas training camp, Rock the Web held the semifinals of their singing competition in good ol’ Beijing. Originally the semifinal competition was scheduled to take place in Las Vegas at the end of the training camp, but since three of the twelve contestants couldn’t get US visas, in the end the event was moved to a Beijing venue. The venue was pretty awesome, but the most spectacular thing to me as […]
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While frolicking in Las Vegas with the Rock the Web crew and semifinalist contestants, we figured it would be negligent on our part to not take pictures of the contestants in the swank mansion we were staying in (and rents for US$10,000 a day at normal rates, which I’m hoping we weren’t paying!). After all, the manager of the mansion told us that it was often rented out for fashion shoots. The only problem is that I hadn’t brought any […]
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At the end of my last night shooting a rather grueling project for the French Open, which had built a regulation clay tennis court and exhibition in the middle of one of the world’s largest and poshest open-air malls (The Place), I was looking forward to a little R&R. Instead, as I gathered up my equipment and prepared to head home, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. The young girl on the other end asked […]
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