Another promotional shot for the upcoming Atrax Mantis E.P ‘Condemned to Hatred’. Working with makeup/special fx artist Carey Harte. Model: Paddy McQuinn.

You can see all my shots from the Condemned to Hatred shoot here and you can read more about the shoot here on the Oss37.com Blog.

The shot used on the front cover of the upcoming E.P ‘Condemned to Hatred’. My first project working with makeup/special fx artist Carey Harte and the 2007 Hype Entertainment Battle of the Band’s winner’s Atrax Mantis.

You can see all my shots from the Condemned to Hatred shoot here and you can read more about the shoot here on the Oss37.com Blog.

Oss237.com - Ross Costigan Photography is an official sponsor for the Hype Entertainment Battle of the Bands 2008, I’m also sitting behind the judges table and providing a photography package to the winning band.

You can check out all my shots from the Battle of the Bands 2008 here in the KilkennyMusic Galleries and you can read more about the competition here on my Kilkenny Music Staff Blog.

The sun sets over Lyda Beach, Gouves, Crete. A snapshot from my truly awesome holiday, taken using my Nikon Coolpix S210.

The second poster in the series, for the upcoming Devious Theatre production ‘Smitten‘. Again, I have to stress that I merely shot the image, under direction of Mr. Paddy Dunne, and Paddy provided all of the design work and photo-shop wizardry.

Unfortunately, this time around Paddy wasn’t available for the shoot, which turned out to be a nightmare-shoot as you can see here on YouTube.

Tickets for Smitten are on sale NOW in Rollercoaster Records, Kieran Street and they are 10EURO. The show runs August 20 – 23 and starts 8pm nightly. For more information and updates, check out www.devioustheatre.com

The first in a series of posters, for the upcoming Devious Theatre production ‘Smitten‘. Once again I’ve had the pleasure of working with the legendary Paddy Dunne. I have to stress that I merely shot the image, under Paddy’s direction, and Paddy provided all of the design work and photo-shop wizardry.

Tickets for Smitten are on sale NOW in Rollercoaster Records, Kieran Street and they are 10EURO. The show runs August 20 – 23 and starts 8pm nightly. For more information and updates, check out www.devioustheatre.com

A behind-the-scenes snapshot, taken using my Nikon CoolPix S210, during extensive rehearsals for the Devious Theatre Company production of ‘Trainspotting’.

You can read my extremely long re-cap of my experiences during the show here on the Oss237.com Blog, it was easily one of the greatest weeks of my life (so far)! I’ll also be posting all of the awesome reviews on my blog.

Derren Dempsey on guitar for Laminate’s farewell performance in Cleere’s Theatre with KilkennyMusic.com. I’ve had the pleasure of shooting the lads several times over the last few years and they’ve always been one of my favourite bands to shoot with great stage presence and energy.

You can check out all my shots of Laminate in action here in the KilkennyMusic Galleries.

My classmates for the last three years of Communications & Public Relations in I.T Carlow. The class photo of an amazing bunch of people.

You can read my thoughts on finishing college and spending three years with these people here on the Oss237.com Blog.

Another new tattoo portrait, this time Shaun’s back-piece (based on a Derek Hess design), inked by Sean Boon of the Vibe Studio, Mullingar. Shot on a 50mm lens (cheers Ken) in natural light, once again using selective desaturation to bring out the red (hopefully no offence to Sean for distorting his awesome work, I’m just trying to get to grips with photoshop!)

You’ll hopefully be able to see more of Shaun’s & Sean’s tattoo’s here very soon and I’ve already done several other shoots since this one but not all of them will appear here on the site so keep your eyes on this and you can read about this shoot here on my blog.

Another shot from my first series working with bodypaint. Shot under natural room lighting using a 50mm lens and a bit of creativity. Model: Tanya O’Callaghan. Bodypaint: Ani Payne & Helen Coyle.

You can see more shots from the series and my behind-the-scenes snaps here and you can read all about the shoot here on my blog.

One of my first attempts working with body-paint thanks to Tanya O’Callaghan, Ani Payne and Helen Coyle. Shot under natural room lighting using a 50mm lens and a bit of creativity.

You can see more shots from the series and my behind-the-scenes snaps here and you can read all about the shoot here on my blog.

As a test run for various upcoming projects, I’ve thrown together a studio to get some practice. The one draw-back being the lack of models. If anybody is interesting in getting some alternative portraits done then please let me know.

You can see more of these test shots here. And you can read more about this shoot and find out about modeling for me here on my blog.

UPDATE: I’m delighted to announce that I’ve made it through to the final for ‘Best Photo Blog’ at the Irish Blog Awards 2008.

Another new one for the series, again manipulating the colour and saturation levels. The title is a lyric from A Perfect Circle’s song ‘Orestes‘ and I think it adds to what I was going for. Again I’d love to hear what people think about these shots.

I’m also delighted to announce that I’ve been nominated for ‘Best Photo Blog’ in the Irish Blog Awards 2008. We’ve also been nominated several times over at KilkennyMusic.com. You can read more about the nomination here on my KKM Staff Blog, which was also nominated for ‘Best Blog Post’.

Finally, back to my fascination with eyes. It’s been way too long but I’ve finally begun what will hopefully become a large series. Along time since my first attempt but I’m back with better equipment, better company and I think I have a better understanding of what I’m doing.

So here’s the first of a new batch, once again working with Tanya O’Callaghan. Getting to grips with using different layers and saturation levels to experiment with the colours and tones. I’ll be posting more shots and tests here as we go along. Feedback, criticism, comments, thoughts or anything would be greatly appreciated.

The Devious Theatre Company returned to Cleeres Theatre last week with ‘Heart Shaped Vinyl’ back by popular demand for 4 more shows which each sold out.

You can check out all my pics from the show here and you can read more about it here on my blog.

Taken in the main square in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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