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Pentatonix performs at Tysons Corner Center

Pentatonix visits the HGTV Santa set at Tysons Corner Center

Pentatonix visits the HGTV Santa set at Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix visits the HGTV Santa set at Tysons Corner Center

Pentatonix!!

If you are a popular music fan, you have probably heard of the a cappella group, Pentatonix. They came onto the scene when they competed and won NBCs competition show, The Sing Off which had groups from all across the country come to compete each week. Being a fan of a cappella groups from before this current craze began, I really gravitated to watching the show. In college, I spent all my extra time rehearsing with my a cappella group, and all my extra money on CD and tape recordings of other groups.

Pentatonix visits the HGTV Santa set at Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix visits the HGTV Santa set at Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix visits the HGTV Santa set at Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix visits the HGTV Santa set at Tysons Corner Center

It was a very exciting opportunity for me to photograph Pentatonix as they came to perform in the Concourse of Tysons Corner Center. Since it was in the holiday shopping season, they performed some holiday his for the crowd. If you are unfamiliar, a cappella group produce all of the sounds using their voices as the only instruments. They can produce all the backing tracks as well as percussion sounds with their creativity. This adds to the interest when listening to this style of music to see how they interpret and create these sounds with just their mouths!

Concourse Concert

Pentatonix performs holiday music at the Concourse in Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix performs holiday music at the Concourse in Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix performs holiday music at the Concourse in Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix performs holiday music at the Concourse in Tysons Corner Center

As part of the holiday celebrations at the mall last year, Pentatonix walked through the HGTV Santa set to look through the Elf village and visit with the big guy. After their visit, they went to the Concourse where a GIGANTIC crowd was waiting for them to perform! This was the most amount of people I have ever seen gathered for an event at Tysons Corner Center. They were stacked almost all the way down to the end of the Concourse almost filling in the width of the space!

Thankfully, Nick Tettey from JB Elliott Photography was there to help me cover this with me. Once I was in position right at the front of the stage, I could not move, so Nick helped me to get some other angles with the crowd a little further back in the crowd. Pentatonix did not disappoint in their singing either! They really sounded amazing, and they got a great reaction from the crowd that came to see them. Luckily there was no problems even with all the people that gathered to see them. Thanks to the mall security that had a great plan for keeping everyone safe and able to enjoy the music!

Pentatonix performs holiday music at the Concourse in Tysons Corner Center
Pentatonix performs holiday music at the Concourse in Tysons Corner Center

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Lord and Taylor Holiday Fashion Show

Santa and Jen Richer at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Santa and Jen waving at the Lord and Taylor holiday fashion Show - Tysons Corner Center
Santa and Jen waving at the Lord and Taylor holiday fashion Show – Tysons Corner Center

We are coming up on the holidays! With Tysons Corner Center being one of my biggest clients, I am capturing many of the events that happen around this busy shopping season. Lord and Taylor sponsored a holiday fashion show in their beautiful Concourse area just inside from their outdoor Plaza. Along with some personalities from 94.7 Fresh FM, it was a full production! Who wouldn’t want to see the latest fashions on some popular media personalities around the holidays?

Models on the Runway

Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Walking the Runway at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show

An appropriate long red carpet was rolled out to be the runway for the models to have an easy marker for their walks. The stylists from Lord and Taylor outfitted the models with some of the newest fashions for men, women, and kids.

Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Female model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Walking the runway at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Runway model at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor fashion show

For the photography setup, I wanted to make sure that both the model and clothes really popped off the screen so I needed to bring out some extra gear. In other words, I setup one large strobing flash at the end of the runway. I positioned myself at the end of the red carpet. That would give me a view of the entire runway to see the models walking and some of the crowd on the edges. Notice how the background falls into a nice blur as they walk closer. Sitting on the ground gives them a more heroic and powerful look. Confidence is always a more flattering look!

Special Guests

Miss Maryland at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Miss Maryland at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
  Santa and Jen Richer at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show
Santa and Jen Richer at the Tysons Corner Center Lord and Taylor holiday fashion show

The show ended with appearances by some VIPs including Miss Maryland, everyone’s favorite, Santa! He joined Jen Richer as the final runway walker to a lot of fanfare and cheers from the crowd. I was happy with the resulting images. The look from the strobes really helps to bring out the true colors of the clothing. Hopefully the images help convince people to head out to Tysons Corner Center and Lord and Taylor to do some shopping this season!

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Back To School Fashion Show – Tysons Corner Center

Lord and Taylor

Last September, I photographed at Back to School Fashion Show produced by Lord and Taylor at Tysons Corner Center. This time the focus was on fashions for younger students that were updating their clothes for the new school year. To demonstrate the outfits, they found some younger models from different ages to walk the runway.

Back to school fashion show
Back to school fashion show
Back to school fashion show
Kid’s fashions for school Lord & Taylor – Tysons Corner Center

Back to School Fashion

Following the Cherry Blossom and Prom Fashion shows, I had a good system down to cover these. They had the same long, red carpet to designate the runway. Unlike the Concourse by the Plaza, the hallway in front of the Lord and Taylor was the setting for this show. Thus there was not as much ambient light in the space meaning I needed more flash power from the strobes.

Lord and Taylor - Tysons Corner Center
Lord and Taylor - Tysons Corner Center
Lord and Taylor - Tysons Corner Center
New Fashions for School – Lord & Taylor – Tysons Corner Center

When the show started, the young kids that modeled clothes were very professional! When it was their turn, the kids walked down the runway, did a turn, and walked back engaging the audience along the way. So many of them handled the moment beautifully, and the crowd appreciated their efforts to model as best they could.

High School Fashions – Lord & Taylor – Tysons Corner Center

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