[Leica] IMG:Fun Work Assignments

[amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)]

I had to take some pictures to illustrate a new graduate program organized 
around digital culture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM),  
Media, Cinema and Digital Studies.  This is one of the specialized tracks 
offered through the English Department.  The program moves beyond the 
traditional writing, literary and critical boundaries of English, morphing 
with disciplines such as communication, art history, anthropology, sociology 
and information studies, but also digital culture broadly ? topics like 
texting and cell phone usage, gaming studies and multimedia content.

I got to have fun lighting these.

For this picture of two professors, our designer later added an image to the 
background from one of their publications, but I like the original version 
for me.  I love black backgrounds and semi-backlighting:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/TwoProfs_MR_8450.jpg.html>

Two 650 watt Lowel Omni-Lights, with half scrims, plus a 1000 watt 
Tota-Light bounced off the studio wall behind the camera.
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In this, my favorite shot from the story, we were to show two faculty and a 
student having popcorn and watching a movie on a laptop in the Film 
Department screening room:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/DigitalMedia_MR_8156.jpg.html>

Two 650 watt Lowel Omni-Lights, with quarter scrims,  two 150 watt 
Photogenic Mini-Spots, plus a bare 15 watt household bulb held over the 
laptop keyboard by the student to simulate the glow from the screen.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/