Dayton, Ohio
Nobody claps for the photographer.
Nightjar Studio photographs live music and the hours around it. Rooms where the light is bad on purpose, shot without a flash and delivered before the tour bus reaches the next city.
- Selects
- Same night
- Files
- Five days
- Where
- Bay, garage or trackside
Commercial photography for the people who race, build and sell fast things in the Miami Valley.
Selected work
Six from the season
06 / 11
Second set, house lights downLive
Front row, somewhere in the smokeLive
Bass, three songs inLive
Red wash, last chorusLive
One spot, one silhouetteLive
Stage left, waiting to go onLive
Client list
Who I have shot for
- 2026Tri-County Karting ClubSeason program, race days and the paddockRace day
- 2026Hollins Motor WorksRestoration feature, the bay and the buildGarage
- 2026Halden Wheel Co.Spring catalog, wheels on white and on the carParts
- 2025Stillwater Vintage RacingHill climb weekend and season marketingRace day
- 2025Northgate Performance PartsProduct launch, 140 items in two daysParts
- 2025Carver Racing TeamDriver and sponsor portraitsTeam
- 2024Foundry Lane CustomsBuild series, the hands and the finished carGarage
- 2024Riverbend Motocross ClubSeason opener and sponsor decksRace day
Rates
Day rate from $1,800
Every rate includes art direction, a shot list before the day, selects the same night and retouched files in five business days. Usage is included for your own channels; licensing for paid media is quoted on the brief.
- Bay, garage or trackside within 60 miles
- Web, print and social crops
- Every file named by car, session and angle
Band Portraits
2 hr
from$550
Press shots that do not look like press shots, made in a real room rather than against a wall.
Show Coverage
3 hr
from$450
One set, front to back, plus the load in and the room. Edited gallery within twenty four hours, sized for press and socials.
Tour Night
8 hr
from$1,200 to $1,900
A full night on the road with the band: soundcheck, backstage, the set and whatever happens after.
Venue and Brand
from$180 / hour
Rooms, bars and stages photographed for the people who run them. Licensed for web and print.
How a shoot runs
Brief, day, selects, files
The brief
A fifteen minute call and a one page shot list. You sign off on it before anything is booked.
The day
Bay, garage or trackside. I bring the light and the direction; you bring the car, the parts and the people.
Selects
A contact sheet of every keeper the same night. You mark what you want finished.
Files
Retouched files in five business days, cut for web, print and social, named the way your team needs them.
The studio
The good frames happen in the dark.
Cass
I shoot from the pit and from the back of the room, and I have never once asked a band to do something again. Low light is not a problem to solve, it is the reason the picture looks like the night felt.
- Selects
- Same night
- Files
- Five days
- Radius
- 60 miles
Send the brief. I quote within one business day.
- Day rate
- From $1,800
- Reply
- Within one business day
- Booking
- Nov to Feb, four days a month open
- Studio
- Bay 4, 240 Foundry Lane, Dayton
- After you book
- Brief call, shot list, a 25% deposit holds the day