Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Charles, Do you know at what time the show will be aired or the name of the program? Regards, Greg charles harris wrote: >Last week I was assigned a very cool project. In the US this Sunday on CBS >is a documentary on the Sept 11 events. The sponsor (through their ad >agency) commissioned about 80 photographers around the country to go out and >shoot public safety people, police officers, rescue teams, firefighters, and >the like. They wanted environmental portraits of the everyday guys. Instead >of showing commercials during the programming, these portraits will be >shown. I expect there will be some outstanding photos here. > >I was assigned two shots in South Carolina; Charleston and rural. I ended up >shooting about a half dozen. If everybody did shoot multiples like I did, >the edit should prove very difficult. Having said that, even though I was >commissioned for two, there is no guarantee of airplay at all. Regardless, >it should be an impressive bunch of shots. > >The photographers were given great latitude on this assignment. Aside from a >nearly unreasonable deadline, the only restrictions besides subject matter >were that it crop to horizontal, portray the subjects in non-civilian >attire, not be an action shot, and be serious in tone. We were assigned a >specific geographic region but were tasked to source the subjects on our >own, meaning I chose who and where I specifically shot. > >It will be interesting to compare what is ultimately selected given that we >all were working with the same guidelines. Anybody else on this list >involved in this project? > >I shot these over the course of 1 1/2 days in Charleston and (the area of) >Aiken SC. All with the Hasselblad. > >The posted images here are outtakes. I have not even seen most of the film I >shot. I had to FedEx it back to my studio for processing and it was sent out >that very day. I did a couple of other shots not shown here because, for one >reason or the other, the outtakes were unsuitable for posting. I usually >make a lot of subtle compositional changes on the fly and work with posing >as I go along, so these shots may not be entirely representational of the >whole lot. One of these shots will not crop well as a horizontal, but I shot >it anyway because I liked it. > >I've not yet linked these to my paw site, check back for that. > >check out and follow the arrows to the right.... > >http://www.charlesharris.com/hero/vfd.html > >as always lots of leica shots can be found at >http://www.charlesharris.com > >Any and all comments or questions will be respectfully noted. I urge >everybody to watch this program not just for the photos, but for the >content. > >I think I'll post this letter twice under two headings for those who >automatically trash PAW topics. Sorry for the redundancy. > >charles > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html