Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of my very first jobs as a free lance photographer in Portland in the late 70's was to shoot photographic backdrops for a Janzen's swimwear catalog. Interesting as because of the deadlines involved I had to do this shoot all day on January 1st of that year. While everybody was off the streets recovering from their new years hangovers. These images were rear projected behind the models which were shot by the main photographer who remained a mentor then friend of mine for decades living and working in Portland Oregon. Actually it may have been front projected using another new or experimental processs. Was I given credit in the catalogs and other places where these composites appeared? I didn't even look I'm sure not. Nobody cared. I got paid I sure didn't. My name didn't need to be on there. It was the photographers work. He was smart enough to hire me to shoot the backdrops. That made for a better final product as he was otherwise involved shooting gorgeous models in little bathing suits on a seamless a thing I vowed I'd do later and then did! Nobody cared if he shot the backdrops or not or how the images got to be where and how they were. I could have been an idiot and tried to extort money later but I didn't have the big fat dollar signs in front of my eyes that this guy had. This guy shot all kinds of pictures in Rome and Venice and he's calling it "location scouting". I bet the used phrased was "support photography". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantzen Mark William Rabiner