Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/04

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Subject: [Leica] Glass Menagerie w/ Leica 45 2.8 (warning: contains photos)
From: leica at jayburleson.com (Jay Burleson)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:35:58 +0100
References: <D17431D1-BBD8-41E7-A54E-7F8CDD47BDD9@gmail.com>

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:
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> http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/792091.html
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> 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.
> 


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