Topic: Celebrating Michael Reichmann (Read 19984 times)

DaveCurtis · « **Reply #20 on:** May 20, 2016, 10:52:02 pm »

Wonderful images! Great idea Jeff.

Schewe · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2016, 12:56:04 am »

Proof that Michael actually DID sleep...just not when the light was good. He was a master of finding mid-afternoon naps even here down in Antarctica. From the 3rd trip at Horseshoe Bay in an unoccupied British station.

Schewe · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2016, 12:59:46 am »

The obligitory ColorChecker card shot...shot in Niagara Falls during a shooting trip before doing the LR 3 video (I think). See Michael and his hats...this was a fav but he lost in Antarctica :~(

Martin Ocando · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2016, 01:03:21 am »

Amazing shots, Jeff. I'm so sad you won't do any more videos with Michael. I really enjoyed the humorous interaction of you guys. Kevin does a really great job filling up his shoes, but there was something about you two together, that I simply can't describe.

Schewe · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2016, 01:06:02 am »

One of my Favs of Mike...(yeah, I never said to only post "pretty" pictures of Michael! Taken in Antarctica with my favorite "assault" lens;a 10-22mm on a Canon APC camera from about 6 inches. He laughed when he saw it...it's too ugly not to love it :~)

Schewe · « **Reply #25 on:** May 21, 2016, 01:09:39 am »

Quote from: Martin Ocando on May 21, 2016, 01:03:21 am

Amazing shots, Jeff. I'm so sad you won't do any more videos with Michael. I really enjoyed the humorous interaction of you guys. Kevin does a really great job filling up his shoes, but there was something about you two together, that I simply can't describe.

Yeah it was the "Ugly American" VS the "Polite Canadian" that Michael and I hit on...it actually took a while for us to work that out. I learned about that doing a book with Martin Evening...I played the ugly American and he played the very, very civil Englishman.

Kevin and I work well together but we're both ugly Americans :~)

Mark Lindquist · « **Reply #26 on:** May 21, 2016, 01:45:15 am »

Holy Antartica Jeff, that first shot of Michael is stunning, as are many others.

Your photos of Michael help us all to know and remember him better.

Please dig up more and continue posting. Absolutely fabulous idea doing this thread.

Though this thread is about fun and games, my heart goes out to you and Kevin and Chris for the loss of your dear friend and colleague, Michael. There's no shot here. But there were many shots there.

Mark

Schewe · « **Reply #27 on:** May 21, 2016, 03:25:51 am »

Quote from: Mark Lindquist on May 21, 2016, 01:45:15 am

Please dig up more and continue posting. Absolutely fabulous idea doing this thread.

Michael and Kevin in the Palouse fall of 2011...The Palouse is a weird area of modern towns and 60's towns and farms. Spring or fall are the best. We were there 2x ad the cover of the first edition of The Digital Negative was shot there...

Schewe · « **Reply #28 on:** May 21, 2016, 03:34:08 am »

Michael with butterfly from the Niagara Falls trip...kinda funny how the butterflies congregated on Mike. Maybe something about pheromones?

Jeeesh...I didn't check focus...really sucked :~( I'll look for another take.

Edit: to remove a bad shot

So, I didn't find a good shot of Michael with a butterfly but I got a shot of one on Chris and another of Michael shooting a butterfly.

Schewe · « **Reply #29 on:** May 22, 2016, 12:24:04 am »

Chris and Michael in the Falkland Islands on rip 2 to Antarctica.

If you never traveled with Chris and Mike it's hard to explain. Chris has the type of personality that he accepted everything with aplomb. Mike on the other hand had ZERO patients. Mike would always drive and it was kinda scary because he was looking for the shot and not the road. Mike would stop, get out, see nothing and get back in by the time I barely got out to look.

And everywhere they went (and I mean EVERYWHERE) Mike had a still camera and Chris a video camera. I don't remember ever seeing Chris with a still camera unless he was using it to shoot video.

I wonder if they ever estimated how many miles they traveled together...

Schewe · « **Reply #30 on:** May 22, 2016, 12:53:58 am »

Michael on set for the original Camera To Print videos...

That shoot was very, very hard. We were using an app for capturing screen shot movies. The problem was it had a real propensity for crashing just before the video was saved. Which meant we had to reshoot the whole thing. The problem was is sometimes we shot for 15-20 minutes and the compression time was 2x the real time. So, we wouldn't know if we got a good saved take for 30-40 minutes–and we couldn't move to a new shot and relight until we knew we were safe. One nite we had so many crashes we were shooting till 2AM.

Which brings me to another issue when shooting with Michael– he had to do his stuff in the morning while he was fresh because by the afternoon rolled around he could barely stay awake. In fact Chris said cut because in Mexico shooting LR 5 vids, Mike actually fell asleep on camera. Would love to have that blooper...

Zorki5 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 22, 2016, 01:28:02 am »

Quote from: Mark Lindquist on May 21, 2016, 01:45:15 am

Please dig up more and continue posting. Absolutely fabulous idea doing this thread.

+1

Absolutely the right thing to do. Much appreciated, Jeff.

Schewe · « **Reply #32 on:** May 22, 2016, 02:22:06 am »

A shot of Michael in Miami while shooting a video Where the @%#&$ are my photos! Seth was kite surfing and Mike and I were shooting him...didn't get anything worth posting other than this nice, subtle shot of Mike...

Schewe · « **Reply #33 on:** May 22, 2016, 02:35:33 am »

Behind the scenes with Michael and Eric Chan of Adobe...

First the shot for public consumption:

Then the real MadManChan shot:

Eric was an early fan of Michael and LuLa before working for Adobe. Mike & I loved shooting segments with Eric because he was so fun to work with...this was from the LR 5.5 additional features where Eric was talking about the LLC correction script for correcting lens cast and fall off.

laughingbear · « **Reply #34 on:** May 22, 2016, 04:21:10 am »

To Jeff,

thanks for that, wonderful idea for a thread in deed! I had great difficulties choosing one that stands out for me, but I think in the spirit of Michael and this thread, this nails it. From 2008, 10 days with Michael.

To Michael:

Thanks for always maintaining a "balanced view" <grin>, and many thanks for the 10 days in Algonquin, quite some wonderful memories.

One last question, I know, I asked so many, but this will stay with me as well.

What camera did you choose to take along?

G.R. Baumann

laughingbear · « **Reply #35 on:** May 22, 2016, 06:53:22 am »

We drove to a Computer place cause I wanted to pick up an external drive for my MBP, I was looking for one of those rugged fw800 Lacie’s. We were discussing all kind of things, jumping from one subject to the other, and Toronto was fairly busy.

Michael managed to overlook a ‘No right turn after 4PM’ post, I did not see it either, and of course, around the corner waits the cop with his tickets ready to make the till sing it’s sweet song for the taxman.

Michael lowers the window of his Q7 and asks; ‘What did I do wrong officer?’

The cop points out the NO RIGHT TURN and already fills out his ticket. His bodylanguage and serious face leaves no doubt, not a chance that he would back off, and he asked Michael to show him papers, insurance etc.

Passing him the papers Michael made some remarks that the cop did not like, and I can already hear something like ‘Sir, please step out of your car!’, but well, this is Canada not the US. <grin>

Nevertheless, all of the sudden the cop makes a face that leaves even less doubts, handing Michael back the papers and informing him with a "Judge Dredd" face that the Insurance expired already two years ago in 2006.

Geeze, by now, the ‘Please step out of your car Sir!’ turned into a rather realistic option.

But of course, Michael just forgot to "update his wallet" with the latest papers, and the cop refrained from incarcerating us. LOL

This trip ended with 80 something canadian bucks plus taxes, nice one. I felt guilty because this trip was only for my harddrive, so I paid for a ~~brunch~~ dinner at the italian, and started whistling while we drove to the restaurant .... "Always look on the bright side of life...da da..... dadudadadada.... "

Michael laughed and we both whistled the Monthy Pyton.

Later that day, back in his studio in Toronto we compared A3 prints from a Hasselblad and the Canon G10. It should turn into perhaps one of his most acknowledged articles later, and was indicative of his free mind and excellent balanced views.

The world is poorer without you Michael...

I was honored to have spent 10 days alone with him in Canada, and later he invited me to his lovely cabin at the lake for a few days, where I managed to drop a half glas of whiskey onto the carpet.... Geeze

I'll never forget!

pax tecum
Georg

aebolzan · « **Reply #36 on:** May 22, 2016, 11:08:03 am »

I knew Michael only from the LL site and his videos with Jeff.....and I missed his presence in the last videos of LR6: the chemistry between Michael and Jeff involved a secret formula impossible to reproduce.....I liked to see and revisit the videos (even nowadays) not ony from the educational point of view but also because I enjoyed (and enjoy) the dialogues between Jeff and Michael.....in 2013 I visited Mexico for the first time and one of my desires was to visit San Miguel de Allende, for me an iconic place closely associated to Michael.....should I say that it was a marvellous day in SMA that I still remember? (and, couriously, in these days one of the images that I took there is participating in a collective exhibition in my city)....thanks Michael for your contribution to my photography and thanks Jeff for the images and thoughts about Michael!

Agustin

David Anderson · « **Reply #37 on:** May 23, 2016, 06:01:59 am »

This is very sad news. RIP Micheal Reichmann.

I never met the man, but have greatly enjoyed his honest and practical camera reviews on this site for many years.
A large part of my decision to switch to the Nikon D800e from Canon was after reading the original review.
LL is the best photography site there is and that's clearly down to Michael - well done.

Schewe · « **Reply #38 on:** May 28, 2016, 09:38:37 am »

Not done yet!

Antarctica is one of the most forlorn and forbidding places on the planet. I just can't imagine the hardships that Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and he crew endured...

Here Michael is outfitted with the latest cold weather gear and camera covers...yet he doesn't seem "happy" (actually I think he was–he was just pissed I was shooting another shot of him:~)

Edited to fix typos

Schewe · « **Reply #39 on:** May 28, 2016, 09:48:53 am »

But, don't think it was all doom and gloom down there...

Here's a shot of Michael holding our favorite beer while on board ship Beagle Beer!. It was surprisingly good (which was a good thing since the other beers they had was crap).

As I recall there was a major crisis...we ran out of Beagle beer on board. As I recall there was some bartering on the high seas; seems another Quark ship had run out of toilet paper and they had plenty of Beagle beer...so there was a covert Zodiac boat exchange to trade our TP for their Beagle beer. A fair trade! (we apparently did not use TP as much as the other ship).

More to come...I invite others to post pics too, please!

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