Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last week I was assigned a very cool project. In the US this Sunday on CBS is a documentary on the Sept 11 events. The sponsor (through their ad agency) commissioned about 80 photographers around the country to go out and shoot public safety people, police officers, rescue teams, firefighters, and the like. They wanted environmental portraits of the everyday guys. Instead of showing commercials during the programming, these portraits will be shown. I expect there will be some outstanding photos here. I was assigned two shots in South Carolina; Charleston and rural. I ended up shooting about a half dozen. If everybody did shoot multiples like I did, the edit should prove very difficult. Having said that, even though I was commissioned for two, there is no guarantee of airplay at all. Regardless, it should be an impressive bunch of shots. The photographers were given great latitude on this assignment. Aside from a nearly unreasonable deadline, the only restrictions besides subject matter were that it crop to horizontal, portray the subjects in non-civilian attire, not be an action shot, and be serious in tone. We were assigned a specific geographic region but were tasked to source the subjects on our own, meaning I chose who and where I specifically shot. It will be interesting to compare what is ultimately selected given that we all were working with the same guidelines. Anybody else on this list involved in this project? I shot these over the course of 1 1/2 days in Charleston and (the area of) Aiken SC. All with the Hasselblad. The posted images here are outtakes. I have not even seen most of the film I shot. I had to FedEx it back to my studio for processing and it was sent out that very day. I did a couple of other shots not shown here because, for one reason or the other, the outtakes were unsuitable for posting. I usually make a lot of subtle compositional changes on the fly and work with posing as I go along, so these shots may not be entirely representational of the whole lot. One of these shots will not crop well as a horizontal, but I shot it anyway because I liked it. I've not yet linked these to my paw site, check back for that. check out and follow the arrows to the right.... http://www.charlesharris.com/hero/vfd.html as always lots of leica shots can be found at http://www.charlesharris.com Any and all comments or questions will be respectfully noted. I urge everybody to watch this program not just for the photos, but for the content. I think I'll post this letter twice under two headings for those who automatically trash PAW topics. Sorry for the redundancy. charles - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html