Independence Visitor’s Center
Ashley and Blake: PAFA
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Yes, I am the world’s slowest blogger! My last event from 2008 at the amazing Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Evantine did the design. I love how the artwork becomes part of the story. PAFA is such a special venue!
The images below are from their album design which is about wrapped. We like to produce our albums within three to four months of the event along with the entire DVD…
When I shot this image, I was thinking that we could do something special with the window since the sash created a horizontal line going through the frame. So, we took it out. We kept going and dodged out much of the window frame to create this dreamy look.
Taken in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton. ISO 3200 with the Canon 1D Mark III. I was at f/2.8 at 200mm so critical focus was hard to get but this came out really well.
I love fisheye. No matter what, I have this lens attached to my Fuji S5 almost the entire day. I talked so much at WPPI about the “cinematic presentation space” of our albums and DVD designs, how a wide format takes advantage of how we naturally see the world. Fisheye helps me achieve this idea.
A perfect example why two-camera coverage is so important. No way I could get both perspectives at the same time. Kudos to Hunter for getting the moment on the right.
We blended two images together to make this collage shown above.
The image of Ashley was posed and set up with a video light. Blake was not posed and was right before the ceremony.
Shot with fisheye with Q-flash high above to my left. I wanted the shadows to cast downward so the light is angled towards the floor. I wanted to paint with shadows here and I think the effect was what I was looking for.
The center image is the anchor. Chase, my cinematographer that day, alerted me to this moment. Without looking, I rolled my aperture to the left to open the lens to allow for more light. No time to do anything else. Evantine rocks!!
The room shot. Ambient. 1Ds Mark II at ISO 1600.
Ashley and Blake busted out some serious moves! How many lessons did you guys take??
Thank you to PAFA and to Ashley and Blake for making this event really shine! We look forward to posting some scenes from the video which should be done soon.
Lisa & Paul
Friday, March 28th, 2008at the Independence Visitor’s Center / Philadelphia, PA
Lisa & Paul from Studio Nine on Vimeo
Another awesome example of an album brought to life by our in-house editor!