[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

So Ashton and I have started a really fun personal project with some of the musicians we’ve photographed together. It happened quite accidentally, just from playing around on set one day, and is quickly becoming a habit to get our subjects in masks for a few frames on the shoot. Here are a couple of the first shots. As we add more, a gallery will be added to my main site under “projects.”

Tyson Ritter, All American Rejects

Nathaniel Motte and Sean Foreman, 3OH!3

[photos ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

This was a record shoot: grooming, wardrobe, pizza, and 3 looks in about an hour!

[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

Once upon a time I aspired to be a choreographer for music videos and concert tours. Have I told this story before? Anyhow, life happens and dreams change, and despite that I no longer dance much it is still a big part of me. So when I learned from my favorite tv show that a National Dance Day was in the works, there was no question that I would be celebrating. This morning I got up early, donned my “Dance It Off B****” tee, grabbed my camera bag, and set off for the Music Center in Downtown L.A.

The event was launched by Nigel Lythgoe and the Dizzy Feet Foundation, a group that I would love to get involved with. I’m already dreaming up cool documentary-type projects that I could shoot with them (since I really don’t see event photography in my future). However I did have fun covering this event – getting shots of the kids dancing around me and this fantastic moment between Adam Shankman and Mia Michaels.

[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

I’m generally perfectly happy to stay behind the camera, but this month’s assignment for This Is A Photo Blog was to shoot a self portrait. The twist was that we were asked to choose the work of another of our fellow contributors to take as inspiration. I selected the fashion work of Alexa Miller. I loved her compositions, depth of field with items blurring out in the foreground, and use of multiple exposures. Please be sure to check out This Is A Photo Blog to see more self portraits from some fantastic young photographers.

[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

[photo ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]

Made a quick trip to New York last week for lots of running around and portfolio lugging.

[photos ©2010 Andrea LaBarge Mills]