Dr. Pfeil, a general practitioner, has been a medical institution in my German hometown for as long as I can think. I never really knew him though since I went with my troubles to Dr. Ertz, the other local medical institution. Like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones or Michael Jackson and Prince, it was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Film’
Doc and Quitte
Posted in Lighting, Portraits, Stock, Travel, tagged Animals, Dirk Anschütz, Dogs, Dr. Erzt, Dr. Pfeil, Film, Kodak, Location, Medium Format, Photo Production, Photography, Portra NC 160, Portraits, Rolleiflex, Stock on December 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Visiting Dietmar Busse
Posted in Art, Guest post, Interview, Lighting, Personal Work, Portraits, Secrets of the Competition, Studio, tagged Art, B & W, Black and White, Dietmar Busse, Dirk Anschütz, Film, Hasselblad, Manhattan, Medium Format, Personal Work, Portraits, Speedotron, Studio, The Visitors on December 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dietmar Busse is (primarily) a fine-art photographer living in a one bedroom walk-up in that nondescript neighborhood around lower Lexington Avenue. His apartment has become the set of an amazing series of portraits that he calls “The Visitors”. In the years that I have known Dietmar he has done some beautiful fashion work, photographed NYC [...]
Spaghetti
Posted in Lighting, Portraits, Visual Research Dept., tagged Dirk Anschütz, Film, Landscape, Location, Movies, Portraits on December 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From the Visual Research Dept.: It is a near scientific fact that every German male would rather be a cowboy, so it’s easy to understand the strong fascination I felt growing up for one of the records my mom owned. It was the brilliant Ennio Morricone soundtrack for “Once Upon a Time in the West”, [...]
Stefan Falke at the Movies
Posted in Guest post, Secrets of the Competition, Visual Research Dept., tagged Dirk Anschütz, Film, Movie Stills, Movies, Portraits, Stefan Falke on September 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Stefan Falke is a Brooklyn based German photo-journalist who has worked and traveled extensively for a wide variety of magazines. On top of that he has made himself a name as a stills photographer on big German movie productions, a part of the business I know almost nothing about. So I’m very glad and grateful [...]
Jungle Light
Posted in Lighting, Personal Work, Stock, tagged Film, Landscape, Location, Personal Work, Rolleiflex, Stock, Travel on May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Whenever I’m getting ready to go on a well deserved vacation, I struggle with the same question that has tormented photographers for thousands of years: Should I bring the lights? And the right answer is: Yes. I was traveling in Puerto Rico, driving through the El Yunque rainforest when I came to this beautiful spot. [...]
I Can’t Work Under These Conditions!
Posted in Editorial, Lighting, Portraits, tagged Dirk Anschütz, Exposure, Film, Location, Medium Format, Photo Production, Portraits, Rolleiflex on May 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the bigger photographic challenges that I’ve had to deal with on a regular basis is the corporate office. I’ve had my fair share of portrait jobs involving people from the worlds of finance, academia or management and a solid majority of them work in a place that can only be described as “visual [...]
