Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great stuff, Kyle. Thanks for sharing. Jay > On Aug 4, 2014, at 2:32 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at > gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/792091.html > > > I love working with actors because it's their job to make fantasy reality. > When you're telling some CEO "ok, now look smart" most of the time they're > thinking about their lunch or their next meeting or some article they're > writing but the one thing they're not really thinking about is how to make > your photo amazing. Actors are thinking how to make your photo amazing. > You can give them individual words, you can give them fake scenarios, you > can give them moods and they go with it. When director Joshua Browns asked > if I wanted to work with some of Philadelphia's best actors to do some > photos for the Commonwealth Classic Theater production of Tennessee > Williams' The Glass Menagerie I was very happy. > > There's not a whole lot visual to The Glass Menagerie, it's a play about > memory and the interactions of a family, but it's not a play where a house > falls on a witch, so any visuals have to be subtler. > > The relationship between members of the family is extremely complicated > and this is what the whole play is about, so I new I needed to do > something that told who everybody was and how they got along in a single > image. The cast have two hours to tell the story, the photographer has > three seconds as someone drives past a bus shelter poster, so you've got > to get it right fast. > > Leica 45mm f2.8, one photek soft lighter ii masquerading as window light. >