{"id":879,"date":"2014-01-03T05:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanmcfoto.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2014-01-03T05:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:11:21","slug":"glor-tire-season-10-contestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/glor-tire-season-10-contestants\/","title":{"rendered":"Glor Tire Season 10: Contestants"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been shooting production and promo stills for Glor Tire for 6 seasons now. It’s hard work, long days, and loads of fun. It’s a real hurry up and wait job, and often you’ve 30 secs to get a shot that will be used all year for the show.. and you’ve waited 30 minutes to get that 30 secs. Because the show is filmed in a live setting, you’re heavily dependent on the lighting to get the shots. <\/p>\n

For those not familiar with Glor Tire, it’s the Irish Language version of X-Factor but with live bands. It’s also Country music. There’s a house band for 6 of the episodes, but the other 9 are popular touring acts in both the Republic and the North of Ireland. There are 9 contestants, and they perform with one of the bands, doing a duet with the band’s regular singer, and a solo number. The rest of the bands shows are a regular set from the band. <\/p>\n

Back to getting the shots! One of the shots that’s a key shot is the promo shot for the contestants. It started as a press shot in the hotel where they stayed hears ago. It moved on to a TV set shot, and then I started making more environmental portraits with speed lights, but this year I made the suggestion that we move to a studio setup instead. And here’s the results, showing the 9 contestants that will begin the battle to be crowned Glor Tire champion 2014. <\/p>\n

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\"G88A0572Mary Dunphy<\/p>\n

\"G88A0584Barry Devlin\"G88A0611Farrah Bogle<\/p>\n

\"G88A0619Patricia Maguire<\/p>\n

\"G88A0637Michelle Cotter<\/p>\n

\"G88A0647Andrew Kenny<\/p>\n

\"G88A0668Niamh McGlinchey<\/p>\n

\"G88A0706
\nAngela Reid<\/p>\n

\"G88A0729Michael Collins <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,44,82,105],"tags":[118,119,123,138,141,148,284,169,181,184,185,193,198,210,299,301,240],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glor-tire","category-headshot","category-portrait","category-tg4","tag-andrew-kenny","tag-angela-reid","tag-barry-devlin","tag-competition-2","tag-country-music","tag-farrah-bogle","tag-glor-tire","tag-irish-country","tag-mary-dunphy","tag-michael-collins","tag-michelle-cotter","tag-niamh-mcglinchey","tag-patricia-maguire","tag-portrait-2","tag-tg4","tag-tv","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}