Hire Girls in the Pit
Girls in the Pit is a working media platform. Founder Tara Lenehan is a photographer and content producer with more than a decade in live music, work in PEOPLE Magazine, and a camera that already knows what to do when the lights drop. If you need photos, vertical video, and real coverage from a festival, a show, a tour stop, or a brand activation, this is the page for that.
What You Can Hire Me For
Four core offers, built for the way festivals, artists, venues, and brands actually buy content. Each page spells out what you get, how it works, and what information I need to send a real quote.
Edited stills from the pit, backstage, and the crowd. Delivered fast enough to run on your socials and your post-show recaps, cut for editorial or marketing use depending on scope.
Vertical video and social-first content built for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Think recap edits, artist moments, crowd energy, GRWM, and the day-in-the-life stuff that reads like a human made it, because one did.
Coverage for the sponsored moments inside the festival: your booth, your lounge, your giveaway, your artist meet-and-greet. Treated like editorial so it does not read as an ad, but shot and licensed so it works as one.
Monthly content for the acts, promoters, and venues that need a steady feed of real images and vertical cuts. Fewer one-off hires, less expensive than a staff shooter, and your socials actually get fed.
How It Works
Event, date, location, deliverables you want, any access or deadlines. The inquiry form below asks for the pieces that let me quote without three back-and-forth emails.
Scope, deliverables, turnaround, and licensing in plain language. Half-day, full-day, multi-day, or retainer. I will tell you honestly if your date is a conflict or your scope is better served by a bigger crew.
Accreditation, backstage, commercial filming, artist participation. These depend on the event and the artists, not on me. I will tell you which pieces I can secure, which pieces you need to secure, and which pieces are not possible.
Show up, work the room, work the pit. Live edits for same-day social if that is in scope. Full gallery and vertical cuts delivered on the agreed timeline.
Private gallery, download links, and vertical video files. Licensing is scoped in writing: internal, organic social, paid ads, press, or editorial. Extended usage can be added later.
Selected Work
A short look. The service pages have more.
For writing samples, see Stories. For the full portfolio, request the media kit.
Common Questions
Sacramento, California. I cover Sacramento, the Bay Area, and the rest of Northern California at local rates, and I travel for the right festival or multi-day brand project. Travel, accommodation, and per diem are quoted on top of production.
Yes. The usual kit is a Sony A7 IV for stills and a DJI Pocket 3 for 9:16 vertical video. For bigger productions, I bring or hire a second shooter so photo and video are not fighting for the same hands.
Yes, within reason. For same-day social, I prefer to work with a brief that tells me which moments matter and which social channels the content is going to. Expect a batch of edited stills and short vertical cuts within hours, with a fuller gallery to follow.
Base scope covers your event and your organic social channels. Paid-ad usage, extended duration, exclusivity, raw files, and creator-account posting are added as separate scope lines. I do not promise unlimited usage by default. Press and editorial reuse is written in by case.
Not by default. Accreditation, backstage access, commercial filming, and artist participation depend on the event and the acts, not on me. I will tell you up front what you need to secure, what I can help secure, and what simply is not possible for the date in question.
Content production is me shooting photo and video for your channels. Sponsorship is paid distribution through the Girls in the Pit podcast, newsletter, or socials. Different offers, different scope, different pricing. The sponsorship page covers that.
Yes. White-label content production for agencies is common. If you are an agency scoping a Sacramento, Bay Area, or NorCal festival activation and need a trusted local shooter, say so in the inquiry.
Half-day concert coverage, a one-day festival content package, or a brand activation starts in the mid four figures and scales from there with scope, crew, usage, and travel. If you have a tight number, say so, and I will tell you honestly what fits and what does not.
Start the Conversation
Send the brief. I read every one and reply within two business days. For time-sensitive festival or activation work, mark it in the message and I will prioritize it.
Prefer email? girlsinthepitpodcast@gmail.com
Your brief landed in the pit. I will reply within two business days.