A bunch of Eggleston prints were sold at Christie’s the other day for just North of $5.9 Million
And I’m sitting here violently shaking my head…!!!
Month: March 2012
SXSW Special: The Bird Call Cover Shoot & Song of the Day
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BIRD CALL
Waltz in the Snow
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SXSW starts this week, and Bird Call is heading down to Austin to play a whole mess of dates, so I figured that since the festival has morphed from being just a week-long Indie music show into a multi-media-mega-extravaganza, today’s post would mimic that sentiment by including music, photos and yet another these stop-action jpeg movies I find myself playing with when I got nothin’ else to do.
A few months back, we were out at the Brooklyn World Headquarters of Bird Call Music and mindful of the low-budget, Indie-Music, keep-it-simple aspect to the shoot, we turned a very tiny white room into a photo studio for Chiara Angelicola’s new record, using nothing but four do-it-yourself lights and a bit of ingenuity.
Here’s a little behind-the-scenes of what we did and some of the resulting final images…
We started with nothing but some sheer drapes covering a sunlit window and a piano dropped in front of it…
…in a very small room (thank God for wide-angle lenses!). We added a couple of my DIY ‘Ghetto-Flo’ florescent strip lights as backlight skims, but decided to use no front light at all, just overexposed the living daylights outta the thing to let the background blow out and see where that took us…
Not bad at all, even if GiGi looks kinda bored…
Chiara getting beautified…
…and standing in…
Some last minute touch-ups…Lovin’ the Horns!…
And away we go…
The final resulting images…..
Next, we pulled out the piano and added a couple of front lights…
…and Chiara jumped around in a cool stripy dress with a pork-pie hat!
Which I was able to turn into this cool multiple…
In the end, GiGi was impressed…
Brad Trent is taking over Twitter…
I just searched Twitter for “Brad Trent” and damned if there aren’t 20 other idiots using my name!
The only one I like is the guy going by “Captain Awesome”…him I could hang with…
Paula Lerner
Paula Lerner died Monday. While I knew that she had been fighting cancer for a long time, the news still cut to my core. Paula was truly one of most genuinely special people you could hope to meet. I first got to know her during the early beginnings of the Editorial Photographers trade association. As its first Vice President, I got to see first-hand what a tenacious fighter she could be. Since she was based out of Boston, for the most part, ours was an email and phone friendship, but every year she would be there for the post-Photo Expo dinner that Michael Grecco and I host, and I can still feel the warm, strong hug she would wrap around me on her arrival…and the even bigger embrace when she said her goodbyes.
To her husband Thomas, and her daughters, Maia and Eliana…I am so sorry for your loss.
Goodbye Sweet Paula. We loved you dearly…
Damn Ugly Photography 