How To Become A Rockstar Photographer Podcast with Matthias Hombauer

Today’s guest is Paul Miles, an Australian based music photographer. Back in the 90’s he was the first who built a webpage dedicated to his favorite band Mötley Crüe and is now known as world’s first #1 historian for the band. The band liked his page so much that they invited him to join their tours.

In this episode, we’ll also talk about his two books “Sex Tips from Rock Stars” where musicians share their private stories and “Before I hit the stage”.

To get more info about PaulMiles including some of his best shots, his favorite gear and the links to his books go to the show notes pages: htbarp.com/paulmiles

This time I interviewed Julian David Stone about his adventures as concert photographer starting back in the 80s’. His approach to concert photography was a different one than most of us are going for He sneaked in his camera gear taped to his legs or hidden in a specially prepared navy coat. In our interview, he shares his favorite stories such as when he was hiding his lens in a big bottle of hairspray of his female friend to get into his equipment into a Prince concert and much more.

I do not recommend to sneak your gear into concerts nowadays, cause you can get blacklisted easily and your concert photography career might be over before it even starts.

However, the 80’s were a different time and it’s hilarious to hear Julian's stories.

We’ll also talk about his successful kickstart campaign of his book “No cameras allowed” which includes a collection of his rare shots of bans such as The Police, Prince, Ramones to name a few.

To get more info about Julian David Stone including some of his best shots, his favorite gear and the links to his upcoming book go to the show notes pages: htbarp.com/julianstone

I’m excited because today´s guest is the singer of Vintage Trouble Ty Taylor. I first met the band in the backstage area of the Ottawa Blues Festival back in 2014 when I was touring with Shantel. Then I was working with VT on stage in the front of 120 000 people when they were playing as support act of AC/DC in Austria and I got one of my most favorite shots from this memorable event.

I wanted to have a look behind the curtains of a raising Rockband such as Vintage Trouble. How is it to become a star overnight (cause this is what happened)? How can someone personally deal with these challenges?

In order to learn more about it, I got in contact with Ty and ask him to be a guest on my show. Fortunately, he agreed and I caught him in the backstage area of a venue in Milwaukee, minutes before they hit the stage.

In this interview, we're going to talk about how everything started for Vintage Trouble, his personal view on life, the importance of building a community and why he appreciates the work of concert photographers.

To get more info about Ty Taylor and Vintage Trouble go to the show notes pages: htbarp.com/tytaylorvt

Todd Spoth is a Houston based music and entertainment photographer who is specialized covering Hip Hop music. Most of the interviews so far covered the Rock and Heavy Metal genre and therefore I thought why not interview a Hip Hop photographer.

Todd client list includes brands such as Canon, Elle Magazine, Forbes, Fox Sports, NFL, Red Bull, The New York Times and he serves on the board of directors for the American Society of Media Photographers. So, this guy knows what he is talking about when it comes down to photography.

Today’s guest is music photographer Silvy Maatman, She is touring with the most famous hardcore bands such as Sick of it all and Biohazard to name a few.

Silvy is giving us a behind the scenes look when touring with those bands and she is going to reveal some of her crazy Rock N Roll stories.

I had the pleasure to chat with Detroit based music photographer Mr. Scott Legato. In this episode, it´s all about shooting for an agency. And Scott is not working for any agencies but for the biggest out there: Getty Images. With more than 50 000 photos on Getty, Scott is one of the hardest working guys I know of.

He will reveal his complete workflow and gives insights when working with an agency. Scott will teach how to sell your photos and his 3 rules every concert photographer should know about.

In this epsiode, my friend Nici Eberl joins my show. She is a fellow Austrian photographer who moved to London and she was one of the first followers of my project HTBARP.

Nici started from scratch and told me “I kept watching the photographers in the photo pit and dreamed of being one of them, but I never felt good enough and was too shy to present my work.”

After following my project for a while and completing my academy www.shootingtherockstars.com her life changed dramatically and she said “After completing Matthias' training I became the house photographer of the O2 Forum, got published in Kerrang! and had over 300 bands in front of my lens.”

My guest in this episode is Brooklyn based portrait and music photographer Ebru Yildiz.

Ebru will talk about her approach when she is shooting portraits and I can guarantee you, it´s great stuff and you`ll learn a lot from her. She will give us a

She will give us a behind the scenes look at her book „We´ve come so far“, a project where Ebru was working and shooting concerts for 75 days in a row! When I first heard about it, I couldn´t believe it.

Imagine shooting concerts for 75 days in a row without any break. This is crazy and therefore I love this interview so much because Ebrus story shows what you can reach in life when you´re passionate about a project and you pour in the hours.

We will also discuss how to self-publish a photo book (a topic that I also discussed with Alexander Hallag in Episode 6) and we will show you which strategies work best.

Today I have the pleasure to talk to Norwegian heavy metal photographer Kenneth Sporsheim. He is one of two photographers for the Nordic issue of Metal Hammer, and he is also the Nordic ambassador for brands like Pentax, Lexar and Lowepro.

In this interview Kenneth reveals insights on working for one of the most prestigious Metal magazines, he shares awesome stories about taking Portraits of bands such as Turbonegro, Slayer or Anthrax and give tips on how you can become an ambassador for famous brands too.

Today´s guest is New York based wedding and music photographer Brian Friedman.

I first bumped into his name a couple of years ago when I was reading his article on F Stoppers on how he went from part time to full time music photographer. Brian shared his 7 top tips including “You have to believe in yourself. When you do this dreams can and do come true”. I totally agree on this, because I had similar experiences and therefore I wanted to have Brian on the show to discuss this topic in more detail

In addition Brian gives us a reality check on how the photography business really works and why we all have to hustle in order to be successful. He will share his stories when he met celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Barack Obama and he will explain why you should find your own vision.