I’ve previously espoused my love for Platon here and David Hobby at Strobist.com makes note that Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is another portrait master working with one soft light. Light that I too truly love. And dude is doing it on film with a large-format camera. Crazy!
Keeping it simple is something that doesn’t come natural to me… For some reason I always feel compelled to add more. A side-fill. A kicker. Perhaps a hair light. Or a gelled background light. I think it takes a great deal of confidence to work with one light and even deeper than that, a great rapport with your subject.
Starting now, I intend to embark on a series of portraits done in this fashion with an aim to connect on a deeper level than I’m currently accustomed to with my subjects. Any takers? Let’s see what happens.
And Mr. Greenfield-Sanders’ take on backstage portraits during NY fashion week.
And no blog post would be complete without some hot go-go boy action, now would it?
I originally found this over on Strobist and wanted to share it here too.
Who is Robert Rodriguez? Oh, just the guy that made the film “El Mariachi” for $7,000 before eventually going on to gross $2,000,000, become a cult classic and favorite of mine. He’s since gone on to make “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” and “Sin City” among other things, but I’m inspired by his sensible, cheap and low-tech way of producing his first film all by his lonesome.
I’ve edited a few short movies on iTunes before and still have a difficult time telling a concise story even with tons of stills and a fair amount of video. It’s amazing to me how the vision and confidence of Rodriguez coalesce into a low-budget film that is unique, tells a great story and has very high production value.
David Hobby at Strobist has been harping on The Big Orange store as the photographer’s greatest resource for a long time, but it’s never rung more true than here… Check out more from Robert Rodriguez as he shares the methods used in the lighting of “El Mariachi”.
Photographer Jill Greenberg has developed a style that is often imitated and described by some as hyper real. Being a bit of a lighting nut, the forums I follow have spilled much discussion reverse engineering her ringflash-based portraiture.
This clip shows a little behind the scenes footage of her set-ups and though process while working with various animals including her “Monkey Portraits” series.
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