As well as starring roles in films such as ‘The King and I’, and ‘The Ten Commandments’, Yul Brynner was an accomplished photographer whose subjects were some of the most acclaimed actors of the 20th century. ‘A Photographic Journey’, in London’s The Little Black Gallery showcases some of his most famous images, and Matt Golowczynski went along to take a look.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
As well as starring roles in films such as ‘The King and I’, and ‘The Ten Commandments’, Yul Brynner was an accomplished photographer whose subjects were some of the most acclaimed actors of the 20th century. ‘A Photographic Journey’, in London’s The Little Black Gallery showcases some of his most famous images, and Matt Golowczynski went along to take a look.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
January 31st, 2011 – Salt Lake City, UT to Portland, OR
iPhone using Hipstamatic (a great photography app)
Steven Wood and I landed at 6:04PM, drove straight from the Portland Airport to Stereoblind studio where we met our two hosts along with two models and two stylists. This would be the first day of a three day shooting trip, seven models in three days.
The first day, right off the plane, was a shoot planned with a full styling team and three models. None of whom I’d ever met in real life.
This trip was a bit of an experiment. I wanted to see how hard it was to leave my geographic comfort zone and shoot, was it worth the hassle to bring a camera on short trips? Away from my lights, away from my studio, away from my connections. On a bit of a whim I was browsing Modelmayhem and spotted a model or two that I thought I would LOVE to shoot, and both were in the same city..Portland, a city less than an hour and a half away by plane. One thing led to another and I looked up prices which seemed much to inexpensive to be right, Steven agreed to join me. We’d do some shooting, check out the sites and maybe even test drive a Ferrari with a blind Al Pacino, who knows. I was ready for anything.
About 45 minutes before getting on the plane, a few hours before the shoot, I received an email from one of the models. “Family emergency, can’t make it. Sorry for the late notice…,” that sort of thing.
These happen, the longer I’ve been a photographer the more rarely they occur… leading me to believe that when they do occur it’s probably legitimate. I emailed her back thanking her for letting me know and… well, didn’t know what we’d do. No cell service in the plane, which was leaving soon.
We formulated a plan B at the shoot. Instead of one look each for three models we’d do two looks of two models. The results were… well… if I were into sports analogies I’d say it was a home run.
The lighting setup I used to achieve these is simple. A single strobe with a parabolic umbrella (86″) creates a very soft even lighting. The umbrella is directly behind me with the face of it perpendicular to the ground, if you look closely into the catch lights you’d see me standing in front of the light. To bring back some definition in the edges I placed two large, black foam boards on either side of the model, just barely out of frame. That is what gives that distinctive shaded contouring around the edges of the model, so to speak.
As seen in this simple lighting diagram.
Setup photo courtesy of Dan LaHaie and his iPhone
Lighting doesn’t need to be complicated, but it does need a lot of attention to detail. As anyone on set that day can probably attest to – angles, distances, power and reflectors are tweaked and tweaked and tweaked… until… well, you just know it’s right.
This short animation takes as a starting point a technical drawing by Einstein. This clip is in stereoscopic 3D. See www.3dbritain.co.uk for more about Stereo 3D. His little sketch already contains all essential ideas about black hole physics which are later elaborated by Hawking and Penrose. The clip begins with a technical letter by Einstein sent to a fellow scientist. This part of the clip has no stereo depth. I then develop Einstein’s ideas of space and time as expressed in the letter. The technical drawing transforms into Schwarzschild spacetime displayed in stereoscopic 3D. This video is produced by 21Horizon/London
Through breathtaking photos, quotes, letters, and journal entries from climatologists, researchers, political leaders, spiritual advisors, and storm survivors, Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey chronicles award-winning weather photographer Jim Reed’s most thrilling, beautiful, memorable, and dramatic adventures to date. From extraordinary tornadoes to historic hurricanes, remarkable floods, geomagnetic storms, and close-calls with lightning, Reed captures not only the mercilessness of America’s sometimes deadly weather, but also the magnificence and meaning behind the tempests. Newly released as a paperback with 16 pages of new material (totaling 208 pages with 194 color photographs), this revised edition of Storm Chaser provides even more incredible images and the astonishing stories behind them. Visit www.stormchaserbook.com for more on Jim’s work!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Halo 2: Walkthrough – Part 33 [Final Mission] The Great Journey (Gameplay & Commentary)
Halo 2 Walkthrough: The Great Journey [Final Mission] Part 33 of my Lets Play series from Halo 2 Only one more Episode to upload now, expect to see that around 6-7PM GMT as well as my first Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video! Playlist: www.youtube.com Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com
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