Welcome to KillerCamera.Com

THANK YOU!

We want to thank the many web sites out there in cyberspace who display our photographs on their web sites.

At this web site, we will be sharing our photographs, and artwork. In the future, many of the images will reside on our web site. However, for now, because this site has just virtually woken up, I will be sending you to OTHER web sites (that we have NO control over) who have chosen to show our images on their web sites. Thank you, we feel honored. If you want to see our images, you will be leaving our web site a lot right now. Simply, since I wanted to provide content on this web site fast, it was prudent and easier to send you to someone else's site that already has their web site already done.

THANK YOU again for all those that we've had the privilege to work with and photograph. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH, you are all beautiful, otherwise we wouldn't be taking your photographs, right?

Primarily, we take digital photos of rock bands and special entertainment in the Central Florida area. However, we also work with anything dead or alive, private or public, normal people, beauty models, commercial products, animals, portraiture, environmental, and special VIP events. Look it's a camera, it will take a picture of anything I point it at, I don't have to give a vanity list of what I can photograph.

We just happen to like metal music. Most bands have all their money tied up in musical equipment, not cameras. We found that most bands did not have good photographs to capture musical history in the making, live on stage. We just want to help out a bit. I'm sure many years from now that killercamera photographs will be valuable to the band members as they look down memories lane or need to promote themselves now.

It's year 2004 and everyone ownes a digital camera. Do they know how to use it? Sure, set the digital camera in automatic mode, and start shooting. It knows when to use a flash, and focus, and set the white balance, and shutter speed. most times you will have successful photographs. However, change a few things like adding high powered roaming theatrical lights that dance to the music, fogging machines, guitarist leaping off the stage, drummer's hands moving 300 m.p.h., pounding speakers, Mohawk haircuts, tattoos, piercings, blood, sweat, snot, mosh pits, beer sloshing, crowds yelling and screaming, crowd surfing, stage makeup, arms and hands waving, underwear throwing, bare breasts, get the idea? You can't use your camera in automatic in times like this. It just will not work.

Our professional Nikon cameras are in manual mode and we used custom setting on the camera to add clearity and focus to the photos. We also use remote controled slave flashes. Some times when we take a photo, there may be six flashes triggered at the same time with radio frequency technology. Heather and I will shoot at the same time, triggering the shared flash system. The flash system allows us to configure which of the remote flashes will trigger with any particular shot. It allows us to "paint" with the available light mixed with our lights. Heather programs the lights doing one thing for her, and I'll be on another part of the stage using the same lights, but doing something entirely different for my camera.

Usually our remote flashes are set on top of tripods. We also have a set of custom made (by Gary) "inverted magnetic monopods". At venues that have steel metal located above the stage, we magnetically attach the flashes to the ceiling or the metal trusses. These are like upside down tripods. We also use adjustable clamps to grip speaker cabnets, or stage equipment. We make sure the light are not in anyone's way, and in good position of great detail. It's much more then simple point and shoot cameras.

We are not assassins. We are photographers that take Killer Quality Photographs and we use Killer Quality Camera Equipment. At one rock concert, a band member stared at our camera equipment and remarked "Killer Cameras", and the rest is history. The name stuck.

Killer Camera is a name that means one thing in the rock and roll world. Killer, was meant to say "cool", "great", "monster", "expensive", "cutting edge", etc. However, when photographing a Vietnam Veterans ceremony, we felt that the veterans were thinking something else when looking at our business card. The end result is some of the best photography anyone has seen, and it doesn't matter what we call ourselves.

Taking the best quality photographs is something we take very serious, but we only do it for people we enjoy, people who pay us, and if it's something that we want to do. We control it, not let it run our lives.

We won't be soliciting our services on this web site. After seeing our work on all the many websites, and on this site, you'll know if you want to contact us for your next gig. We hope you do. Sit back and enjoy the photos and the bands, and make up your own opinion if these are the best band photos you've seen.

We've had the killercamera.com domain name for 2 years now. It's about time that I start working on it. Eventually, this will be a Killer Web Site.

KillerCamera is really not entirely about Rock Bands, we do lot's of other types of photography. For now, we are going to fill this web site up (to about 700 megabytes of space), and then we will post more photos on www.photosofbands.com, which will give us another 700 megabytes.

Thanks,
Gary & Heather Ensmenger
aka KillerCamera