{"id":13595,"date":"2014-01-25T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2020-01-02T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:11:14","slug":"arc-reactor-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/arc-reactor-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc Reactor album art portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"eventDate\">Sept &#8211;<br \/>\nNov<br \/>\n2013<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Arc Reactor \u2018Postmodern Construct\u2019 album shoot\" href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/arc-reactor-postmodern-construct-album-shoot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back in September last year I took some shots for Arc Reactor&#8217;s debut album\u00a0<\/a><em><a title=\"Arc Reactor \u2018Postmodern Construct\u2019 album shoot\" href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/arc-reactor-postmodern-construct-album-shoot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Postmodern Construct<\/a>.<\/em> Now that the album&#8217;s been put for a while, I can post the images: the band wanted to do something different with their portraits, something that would express their individual personalities and also tie in thematically with the album. We came up with this concept of a combination of double exposure portraiture and photomanipulation, expressing elements of each member&#8217;s personality through a visual metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the resulting portraits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ramone.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13602\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ramone-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"ramone\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ramone-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ramone.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dax.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13600\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dax-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"dax\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dax-206x300.jpg 206w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dax.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a> <!--more--><a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shaun.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13603\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shaun-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"shaun\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shaun-256x300.jpg 256w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shaun.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clement.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13599\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clement-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"clement\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clement-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clement.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jp.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13601 aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jp-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"jp\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jp-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jp.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"New animation: Arc Reactor \u2018Postmodern Construct\u2019 album teaser\" href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/new-animation-arc-reactor-postmodern-construct-album-teaser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the animated teaser video I made for Arc Reactor over here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"arc reactor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arcreactorband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arc Reactor on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept &#8211; Nov 2013 Back in September last year I took some shots for Arc Reactor&#8217;s debut album\u00a0Postmodern Construct. Now that the album&#8217;s been put for a while, I can post the images: the band wanted to do something different &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/arc-reactor-portraits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2065],"tags":[1071,962,189,663,55,40,1070,519,17,437,1060,12,145,256,131],"class_list":["post-13595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-press-shoots","tag-album-cover","tag-arc-reactor","tag-art-2","tag-black-and-white","tag-cape-town","tag-design","tag-manipulation","tag-metal","tag-music-2","tag-people","tag-photo-manipulation","tag-photography-2","tag-portrait","tag-portraits","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13595"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32341,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions\/32341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}