[Leica] Blow-up, the movie.

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Jim Shulman offered:
Subject: RE: [Leica] Blow-up, the movie.

>>> On the other hand, in a fully computerized world there's no action after
the
> shoot.<<<<<<<

Hi Jim,
Yeah and "Dancing in the Dark" will mean yer doing it alone! :-(
ted


> Enjoy the remaining romance while we can.  In five or ten years they won't
> even need models.  The objects to be included in the final image will be
> photographed/scanned.  Graphic artists will construct the model from a
stock
> library of body components, animate to a desired position, build the
> background and related props, and click "save".  No strung-out artistes,
no
> temper tantrums, no late shoots, no big fees.  Since it's all electronic,
> that means a trained professional in some low-wage country can do the
entire
> project for less than the catering bill of an old-fashioned shoot.
>
>
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Slobodan
> Dimitrov
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:10 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Blow-up, the movie.
>
> It's finally been released in widescreen on DVD this year. I couldn't help
> but get the sense of a world long disappeared which won't be back, ever.
> Some of the stock and work horse images of the photographer in his studio
> seem so distant and alien now.
> The screen and keyboard, being central to the modern studio, just doesn't
> lend itself to the romanticism displayed in the film.
> S. Dimitrov
>
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