Those where the days
I guess I've been living in a vacuum, because I had no idea there were actually rules for images you share for Throwback Thursday. Mashable actually has a post for throwback etiquette. Well, none of us have time to follow etiquette when it comes to old photos. So, I'm just running with this one.
Digging through my archives I found this image my buddy Jim Morton sent me a while back. We were both at Hasselblad for many years. Here's the scenario:
Digging through my archives I found this image my buddy Jim Morton sent me a while back. We were both at Hasselblad for many years. Here's the scenario:
First, that's Tony Corbell, Big Daddy himself (Don Blair), me, (Who told me that sweater looked good?) and our good pal, Terry Deglau, who used to be with Kodak. Sorry, no idea who the models were.
Second, this was taken at a shoot at the MGM, back in the days when they had the giant lion out front on the corner of the hotel. Don did a program that year at WPPI, probably around '91 called "Don Blair and Friends", then sponsored by Hasselblad, Kodak and Art Leather.
As part of the program, Don did a live shoot outside with the models and then the following day each member of the workshop got an 8x10 from the shoot during a more standard presentation. Don, along with Terry and Tony talked about the key ingredients along with lighting and posing, two of Don's favorite topics. Remember, this was in the film days, so it was pretty impressive for people to get an 8x10 image within 24 hours.
Just as Don handed out the 8x10's to approximately 200 people or so, I came down the aisle yelling about making a big print, at least "5x7". Everybody looked at me as if I was nuts, but behind me we rolled in a 5x7 folio that Art Leather had built...5 feet x 7 feet. It must have weighed five hundred pounds, but was covered in leather and looked exactly like a 5x7 folio on steroids. Even more impressive was how good the Hasselblad image from the shoot held up - no grain no pain. That 5x7 ft. photo was one I made of Don and Skip at a junk yard in Las Vegas.
Second, this was taken at a shoot at the MGM, back in the days when they had the giant lion out front on the corner of the hotel. Don did a program that year at WPPI, probably around '91 called "Don Blair and Friends", then sponsored by Hasselblad, Kodak and Art Leather.
As part of the program, Don did a live shoot outside with the models and then the following day each member of the workshop got an 8x10 from the shoot during a more standard presentation. Don, along with Terry and Tony talked about the key ingredients along with lighting and posing, two of Don's favorite topics. Remember, this was in the film days, so it was pretty impressive for people to get an 8x10 image within 24 hours.
Just as Don handed out the 8x10's to approximately 200 people or so, I came down the aisle yelling about making a big print, at least "5x7". Everybody looked at me as if I was nuts, but behind me we rolled in a 5x7 folio that Art Leather had built...5 feet x 7 feet. It must have weighed five hundred pounds, but was covered in leather and looked exactly like a 5x7 folio on steroids. Even more impressive was how good the Hasselblad image from the shoot held up - no grain no pain. That 5x7 ft. photo was one I made of Don and Skip at a junk yard in Las Vegas.
For a lot of years the four of us, Tony, Don, Terry and I were like the Four Musketeers involved in one adventure after another.
Here's a point so many of you take for granted. Images like this truly capture amazing memories and transport everybody involved to another time and place. Don't underestimate your power as an artist to create incredible images that years from now will be a personal time machine for your clients. Every client deserves your very best work!
DEFIES LOGIC
To oppose or resist with
boldness and assurance: the fact of being a sensible or reasonable explanation or idea.
A misconception is a false
or mistaken view,
opinion, or attitude.
The misconception is there is a shooting star,
when infact, it is a
common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as
it enters the atmosphere, becoming a meteor. I suggested in my blog those
streaks in the sky where stars, when in fact, they are shooting stars or
meteorites. Thank you Jon Allyn for your corrections. Jon is an asstute reader
of my blogs and does not let me get away with anything.
Logic would have us believe that a shooting star exposed for
three hours to a camera should produce a straight line.
Logic would have us believe in a 3 hour time frame some
stars should disappear because the earth makes a 360 degree circle in 24 hours. This should make the straight line curve, but a circle in 3 hours?
fact is these shooting stars produced concentric circles in 3 hours. This defies all the logic I know. Please comment if you have any suggestions on what is happening.
fact is these shooting stars produced concentric circles in 3 hours. This defies all the logic I know. Please comment if you have any suggestions on what is happening.
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