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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #640 on: September 08, 2013, 10:34:11 pm »

Simon, very cool images:)!

Does anyone know about this magazine - http://www.artefotografico.es ?
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #641 on: September 08, 2013, 11:01:44 pm »

Hi Michael,

Thanks, I don't know this magazine.

Cheers

Simon
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #642 on: September 10, 2013, 02:32:14 am »


The driver is actually me...

But you're not actually moving are you ?

I think you used http://www.virtualrig-studio.com/
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #643 on: September 10, 2013, 02:39:05 am »

Hello,

That's correct the car is stationary in my studio.The car its self is made up of 12 different images.

Dan the retoucher doesn't have virualrig so he did it by hand.

Cheers

Simon
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« Reply #644 on: September 10, 2013, 12:10:39 pm »

Hi Simon,

Really great work, glad to see you actually getting the D800 singing so well and breaking forum rules shooting at f16.

What many fail to realise is how important your team is, you and your retoucher are obviously on the right page, the result is world class.

The driver thing...? So what...? It's about the car not the driver, also the empty passenger seat keeps the image culture and creed neutral and tells you the model, if you want a LHD model, just flip the ad.


Great work Simon, really love it.

Steve
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« Reply #645 on: September 12, 2013, 12:03:43 am »

It makes me really really really (how many reallys can I fit in here) want to go night driving.

Love it!  Well done Simon and your retoucher!

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #646 on: September 12, 2013, 10:57:48 am »

Two new posts up on the blog:  http://christopherbarrett.net/blog/

One project is quite colorful / ethereal, while the other is dark and elegant.  I think these speak well to the necessity of sensitivity to the environment when considering lighting as well as the importance of being well versed in different esthetics.  We did quite a bit of lighting in both projects, though it may be less apparent in the brighter one.



Cheerio!
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« Reply #647 on: September 12, 2013, 01:12:24 pm »

Very nice Chris.  

I noticed that you leave the blue color cast from the sun in most of your images.  Do you find that some clients would have a problem with this?

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« Reply #648 on: September 12, 2013, 01:19:38 pm »

Here are some images from a cool project I got last month.  Key to this project, scouting and more scouting.  There is a good deal of lighting with each shot, and on a scout trip I was able to capture 9 or 10 images in the space with grey cards throughout.  I then averaged the color temp from each card and figured in studio what gels I needed to match color.  (Good thing I did this before hand since the gel that I needed is not one I usually bring with me.)  
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« Reply #649 on: September 12, 2013, 01:22:11 pm »

And the upstairs...
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« Reply #650 on: September 12, 2013, 02:22:41 pm »

Very nice Chris.  

I noticed that you leave the blue color cast from the sun in most of your images.  Do you find that some clients would have a problem with this?



Nope, never.  As I sit here in my office looking at the sheers over my window... they look rather blue.  I just feel this is the natural reality and should be maintained.  I believe that neutralizing the cool exterior makes a space feel rather sterile.  Kirk and I have discussed this issue here before.  Now on your museum (?) images above, in that first shot, I would totally neutralize the blue on the right side of frame on the carpet and wall.  I don't understand where that color is coming from.

This all makes me curious, though, have you ever shot interiors on film?

CB
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« Reply #651 on: September 12, 2013, 03:17:56 pm »

Nope, never.  As I sit here in my office looking at the sheers over my window... they look rather blue.  I just feel this is the natural reality and should be maintained.  I believe that neutralizing the cool exterior makes a space feel rather sterile.  Kirk and I have discussed this issue here before.  Now on your museum (?) images above, in that first shot, I would totally neutralize the blue on the right side of frame on the carpet and wall.  I don't understand where that color is coming from.

This all makes me curious, though, have you ever shot interiors on film?

CB
It is a new museum.  The color on the right is from a gel that the lighting designer placed on the lights.  He put blue gels on a handful of the lights through out the space; I don't know why, but he did.  Also, the color temp of the screens are a bit blue as well. I was thinking about removing that blue, but since it was intentional in the design, I decided not to.  Out of the two design firms involved, the one who would have made that call is in London and was not at the shoot.  So, I decided just to leave the gel in place.  

I have never shot interiors with film.  Why do you ask?
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #652 on: September 13, 2013, 07:47:42 am »

Two of my favorite.

Same talent, left during makeup, right after.

Left, a trillion iso, right much less.

Both p30+, contax



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« Reply #653 on: September 13, 2013, 08:43:38 am »

Now I remember why I missed the grain. Really love the left one & the Rt one not shabby either, it has those "Blurred Lines" ;).
Bravo. :)
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #654 on: September 13, 2013, 09:19:42 am »

As ever, très jolie!

So's this:

http://youtu.be/9DkcQ09h2Vo

Wish the bars I get to had music like this instead of never-ending friggin' news and cooking programmes on tv.

She reminds me of Christie Turlington; it's the mouth.

Lucky guy, and the harder you work the more lucky you get...

Rob C
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« Reply #655 on: September 13, 2013, 04:09:20 pm »

As ever, très jolie!

So's this:

http://youtu.be/9DkcQ09h2Vo

Thanks Rob,

Dwight's cool, not from Texas though, raised in Ohio, but you can't hold that against him.

Saw him at some save the chipmunks, or something benefit at the Santa Monica hangers.  I don't think he wanted to be there
any more than I did.

He came out, his hat down to his nose so if it weren't for him singing you wouldn't know it was him.

Did three songs, said thank you and left.

I think one was this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgd5UPmjqs

IMO

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« Reply #656 on: September 13, 2013, 05:49:01 pm »

Two of my favorite.

Same talent, left during makeup, right after.

Left, a trillion iso, right much less.

Both p30+, contax



BC

Love the grainy feel. Smooth high ISO performance is one of the most overrated things.
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #657 on: September 14, 2013, 09:19:11 am »

Rob,

This place plays the music you'd like.



it's called Lee Harvey's in Dallas.  Yea I know, it's not politically correct, but hey, the burgers are good, the music is rockin', the girls are pretty.

Problem is from where you live it would be kind of a long walk home.

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« Reply #658 on: September 14, 2013, 09:56:51 am »

Rob,

This place plays the music you'd like.



it's called Lee Harvey's in Dallas.  Yea I know, it's not politically correct, but hey, the burgers are good, the music is rockin', the girls are pretty.

Problem is from where you live it would be kind of a long walk home.

BC



Long walk home: sounds like a movie... maybe I could find that wonderful ’59 Coupe de Ville and drive it home across the Pond? Probably cost me more than I’ve got -  but there’s a couple of car collector guys here might buy it off me if I go broke. Oh well, nice idea.

I think about getting away from here every second week or so, but the house market has collapsed along with everything else, so I couldn’t sell to save my life. Thing is, to be any the better off from the move, I’d have to live in a London, Paris or Rome, and that’s more painful than buying the Cadillac! Oh the price of having cameras that love women…

Regarding your bar – isn’t that a bit of a dangerous name in Texas? Or is there a swathe of political intrigue of which non-Texans have no idea? Don’t answer that - someone may come to visit you wearing twin Colts slung low.

Thanks for posting that shot – always enjoy seeing it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2qo1x9rcCc&feature=share&list=RD029DkcQ09h2Vo

Maybe these girls might come to Mallorca on holiday…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQcGkzXmPjY&feature=share&list=RD029DkcQ09h2Vo

Touch of Federico Fellini?

;-)

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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #659 on: September 14, 2013, 10:27:46 am »



Regarding your bar – isn’t that a bit of a dangerous name in Texas? Or is there a swathe of political intrigue of which non-Texans have no idea? Don’t answer that - someone may come to visit you wearing twin Colts slung low.


Naw.  Dallas, regardless of perception would much rather be picked up and moved to the east cost.   Dallas is corporate money, Bentleys and Armani, the 25 year olds eat fusion and are foodies, well most of them.

There's still some Texas left in the area, if you go to Ft. Worth, but most of that is for tourists that still think we all ride horse and shoot on sight.

The name of this bar sounds politically incorrect, but for a long, long time Dallas lived under the stigma of that awful day and I think just grew tired of it

I've never heard a Dallasite mention it, but the national and international news mentions that time as if it were yesterday.

Anyway, the patrons of this bar just wanna have fun, sit out in the gravel lot, listen to music, get a little loaded, go home with a boy/girl and not worry about life.

To them the name Lee Harvey has about as much impact as saying John Wilkes Booth.  Both tragic, both way in the past.

But no you won't get shot with a gun.  There is more guns per capita in LA than Dallas, though perception and reality are way different animals.

Actually the most liberal county in American is the most caucasian centric, Marin County, North of San Francisco.  Dallas proper has more percentage of ethnic's groups than most American Cities, so  . . .

Once again, perception and reality.



Love this shot, love this model.  Kathryn is not anorexic, or afraid to eat a meal, she's just a good hard working damn pretty woman.

Not Retouched.

IMO

BC
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