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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Everyday Sunday + Newsboys

There are so many updates, I don’t even know where to begin!

I got to do a very spontaneous and fun photoshoot with my friend Grace Campbell yesterday (with Rebecca Walton and Gabby Campbell assisting – thanks guys!) Those pics will be up shortly and I’m very excited about them, because Grace is totally gonna be huge.

I’ve been doing tons of shoots lately (yay!) thus I finally updated completely revamped my photography website, not with much new work (yet) but a fresh look and FLASH! TONS of new work is coming soon though, please visit and tell me what you think of the redesign (breezybaldwinphoto.com).

In other photo shoot news, I got to do another shoot with the awesome Everyday Sunday. This time a REAL shoot for the album packaging and everything, not just a random for-fun shoot… not that there’s anything wrong with those, but you know. First location was actually a spontaneous last-minute thing because the boys discovered when they got in town that their hotel was AMAZING and so we did a shoot there the night before our scheduled shoot at building 8 in the factory the following day (also the home of my church!) which they very generously donated to us! Without further ado, here are some shots:

The name of their new album is “Best Night Of Our Lives” so naturally we were going for a very fun night-time atmosphere. I’m also doing all the packaging for this album as well, and we already have a final cover, which you can see below. First time a band has really given me almost total creative freedom, which was really nice to have. For the cover I used a pic I took in NYC and some long exposure shots (the album title is all my handwriting with a light pen in my bedroom … lol)

In other packaging news, we finally got the new newsboys final packaging inserts today, and they look pretty sweet. Very clean and sharp. Definitely my most challanging project to date. What we started with and what we ended up with is just mind-bogglingly different… I’ll have to write an entire post dedicated to the design process of album packaging and use that one as an example. Craziness. So much fun though, but an equal amount of stress!

With all that I really feel like I’m about to enter a brand new chapter of my life, now that I’m finally working on some super high profile stuff (yay!) AND I’m turning 21 next week, going to 6 countries this summer AND I have tons of really exciting projects lined up, including a music video……. the best is yet to come for sure.

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

When It Rains, It Pours

I’m more swamped with work than I ever have been in my entire life.

While I know I should be ridiculously thankful, I have only been sleeping about 3-5 hours each night in order to put a dent in some of the work I have.

Writing and taking short breaks here in there is all that keeps me sane, which is why I’m taking this break now.

Plus I want to keep a record of some of what I’ve done recently, so I don’t forget and it doesn’t pile up too high.

Some of my recent work includes Article One’s myspace customization (I took the photos used in the design as well as doing all the coding, etc) a new newsboys tour poster, lots of Inpop splash pages to make way for the new website I’m currently working on, packaging for the new Paul Colman album “History”, as well as Paul’s current press photos; the packaging for Julian Drive’s debut “My Coming Day” a photo shoot with my twin sister Ally.

Oh plus there was assisting my favorite photographer as an on-stage volunteer for an example photoshoot.

Here’s my favorite shot from the shoot with Paul Colman at the Factory in Franklin… that was a fun shoot

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Sunday, October 5th, 2008

newsboys: LIVE

If you had told me last year that by this time next year there would be a Newsboys AND Superchick album out with my name in the credits I would have thought you were crazy and probably said “ya, in my dreams”. I really don’t know how it happened, it’s just God’s awesome work as usual.

The Superchick album, Rock What You Got, has been out a while now… but the Newsboys live album just came out a few days ago. It’s amazing. Oh FYI… Newsboys is my favorite band of all time incase that wasn’t obvious.

The album was definitely one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done because I put myself under so much pressure to make the design awesome. After lots of revisions I started to realize that when you work with clients that already have a super strong and consistent brand, in the end you must work with that brand and not fight it, no matter how tempting it may be to make the design completely your own.

Case in point, check out all the revisions. Notice the one that deviates from the rest? That one was probably my personal favorite. I am really happy with the end result, even if it wasn’t my favorite. A few of my photos were used in the packaging and I did do most the art direction and all the design/layout except for the photo collage on the cover, which was already made a while back (and had been used on some promo material for the GO tour) by David Dobson.

If you like the Newsboys, this is a great cd/dvd to own. Be sure you buy a hard copy tho, so you get the actual full concert DVD and my beautiful packaging, and not just the iTunes version. Better yet, buy both!

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