Second day: After Cappadocia we traveled on to the southern coast where we stayed in a little village named Cerali. We asked Ali, the owner of the pension we stayed at, if he could recommend a local helper and he volunteered to do it himself. After walking around Cerali for a day we got the [...]
Archive for June, 2010
The Sultans-Part 2
Posted in Lighting, Personal Work, Portraits, Travel, tagged Dirk Anschütz, Exposure, Location, Magazine, Mamiya, Medium Format, Personal Work, Phase One, Photo Production, Photography, Portraits, Profoto, Self Promotion, Travel, Turkey on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Sultans-Part 1
Posted in Lighting, Personal Work, Portraits, Travel, tagged Dirk Anschütz, Location, Medium Format, Phase One, Photo Production, Portraits, Profoto, Travel, Turkey on June 23, 2010 | 37 Comments »
I’m always fascinated by how some ideas percolate in the back of one’s mind before they find the right outlet. I took these 2 portraits in 2007 during a stock production in India (more about this in a future post) and even though I liked what I was getting during the shoot, I didn’t think [...]
How aCurator’s Curator Curates
Posted in Guest post, Secrets of the Competition, Visual Research Dept., tagged aCurator, aCurator.com, Dirk Anschütz, Julie Grahame, Photography, Publication on June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
© Jamie Warren I met Julie Grahame a few years ago at a portfolio review, which felt like a very mild waste of time until I sat down at her table at the very end of the shindig. She was sharp, insightful, articulate, and very funny. A few months ago she started aCurator.com, a wonderful [...]
Eleven
Posted in Lighting, Sports, Stock, Studio, tagged Dirk Anschütz, Medium Format, Photo Production, Photography, Soccer, Sports, Studio on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On June 11th the wait will finally be over. 32 teams from all over the planet will meet in South Africa to figure out which nation will be on top of the soccer heap for the next 4 years. The best players will try everything to become legends. Ordinary people will strut like roosters if [...]
Squint
Posted in Visual Research Dept., tagged Clint Eastwood, Movies on June 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
From the Visual Research Dept.: In case you haven’t been invited to the party, you might have missed it, but it was Clint Eastwood’s 80th birthday this week. I’m obviously stating the obvious here, but the man wrote a very large chapter of the book on looking good, cool, and masculine. There is a lot [...]
John Irving, Juergen Frank, 10 Minutes, Go!
Posted in Editorial, Lighting, Portraits, Secrets of the Competition, tagged John Irving, Juergen Frank, Location, Medium Format, Phase One, Photo Production, Photography, Portraits, Profoto on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the first interview on The Heavy Light, and I’m happy that I got my good friend Juergen Frank to be the first photographer answering a bunch of questions here. Juergen was the photo editor for German Elle before he moved to New York “with a strong German accent” to start his photography career [...]
