Mono Lake

Tried out the 1Ds at Mono Lake, California:



Lovely build quality. Produces nice files, too. I so want one now. Canon is a drug dealer and the 1Ds is crack.

New Camera!

Sort of. I got a 1Ds MkIII on loan from Canon for a week and a half (very nice, so far). I tried it out last night on the cat's but I plan on getting some real images up next week after my trip to Mono Lake.

Off to do some night landscape's for now...

Martin Schoeller/Paris Hilton

As a fan of Martin Schoeller, it was nice to see his name in this month's copy of Bazaar. I had to chuckle when I saw the part in the video where he's using his two Kino-flo's on either side of the face technique he's most known for. That and the scene at 0:48 where you see rolls upon rolls of 120 Portra.

Watch the video.

Read the article.

Gaetan Caputo

I got a copy of Canon's new magazine, CPN, the other day and in it they were talking about the 1DS MKIII. They had a couple images by Gaetan Caputo and I was entranced by how beautiful they were. I'm not really into people photography so I don't know how common it is to use kino strips on either side of a face (other than Martin Schoeller) but I love this image they featured:



Don't know or care who did it first but I love the telephoto look with low DOF mixed with the light of the kino's. I think what I love about it is he's using a method similar to Schoeller's except in the beauty genre rather than in editorial portraiture, which I think works out beautifully.

Check out his site here for more of his work: www.gaetan-caputo.com/

Here's a link to the online article (funnily enough, not in the magazine), though it's basically just a plug for the camera: cpn.canon-europe.com/content/road_test/gaetan_caputo.do

Jaguar CX-F

Christopher Sargent, the DP for this latest Jaguar spot, really went to town with the lighting. It's beautifully done with some fantastic editing. One thing to do is watch it over and over again, slowing down and stopping in certain spots to try and reverse engineer the lighting. I learned some stuff I most certainly want to try out.

It's the first spot on Sargent's reel which can be viewed here:
http://www.skouras.com/dps/sargent/reels/1110733.mov