Audra Mae

I had the pleasure to do a quick photo session and extensive interview with Audra Mae at SXSW. Audra Mae is a uniquely gifted singer/songwriter signed to OneSideDummy Recorders, who happens to have signed another of my favorite bands - Flogging Molly.


Audra Mae gained much notoriety last year when her haunting and soulful cover of Bob Dylan's Forever Young was featured on the Fox series, Sons Of Anarchy.

This shot is the perfect example of shooting on the fly. It was taken in the hall outside of Audra's hotel room and I used a camera mounted Nikon Speedlight to give me nice contrasting bounce light off of the left wall.

We did a quick series of ten shots and then Audra was on her way to perform a riveting set to an eager SXSW crowd.

Audra was truly delightful to interview and she is a stunning natural beauty to photograph.

Post production on the above image included some slight feather retouch on her cheeks, with little to minor retouching under her eyes to help enhance their sharpness.


For the image below I did two extremely high key exposures and shot in RAW format black and white.