BTS: Martin Schoeller Photographs Ryan Lochte
Martin Schoeller is one of my favorite photographers, and it so cool to see a BTS video of the Time cover above with a few nice layers of technical info included.
Video and links after the jump.
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So that black background didn't just happen by fall-off. Schoeller and his crew spent some time on this, but got a really nice set of images. No idea what the underwater strobes were. If anyone knows, hit us in the comments. There is a "Behind the Covers" piece at Time's website. For more of Martin's work, see his portfolio site, or this annotated BTS video of a female bodybuilder portrait.
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Posted at 1:45 PM.
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Sorry about the scrunched-up text below the embedded video. Something about the embed code from Time is breaking my HTML below the vid, and I can't fix it.
Any suggestions, I am all ears. Or if the video pops up somewhere else, like YT, please let me know and I will embed from there.
Thanks,
DH
Maybe it's just an Apple display thing. Looks fine on Internet Explorer.
@Goes-
It's the link breaks, actually. Neither enter or hard BR tags are working after the embed code, and I can't see why. Also, there are little lines after the text that are a result of the same.
Hopefully, they will port the vid to a more embed-friendly venue soon. They often do. I'll swap it then.
I saw that in my Timepictures twitterfeed and i have to say that the swim cover is absolutely smashing.
The other two was good as well, but the swimcover is so crisp.
I'm guessing his submerged strobes are Ikelites with optical triggers- pretty standard setup for SCUBA photography. With full manual control, they'd be perfect for an assignment like this.
I had a look at Time's Behind the Covers page and was amazed how much in the images was changed in post. Have a look at the the cover image of Lolo Jones and the image it is based on.
a bit of a non-sequitur: I just recently came across Martin Schoeller's work and have been reading up on him. how the heck do of say his last name? is it skeller? shoaler? somethg else?
oops - never mind; he says his name in the video. dur.
Been a fan of Martin Schoeller for a while. What an awesome image....
Pretty amazing photos. It looks like he used underwater enclosures for cameras and strobes.
his last name is pronounced Shöller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbVxr6YgB0
"oe" , ø, ö and the similar french "eu" have a similar sound half way between "o" and "eh". Do not think the sound exists in English - as French actors' names Depardieu and Deneuve gets often mispronounced
Hey David,
How about an NSFW on links? I have come to blindly follow/trust your links and was a bit surprised by a NSFW image in the portfolio collection.
Happy Friday
Frederick.
Frederick-
Dude. If you are "blindly" following people, and have a very low tolerance for that kind of content (I saw nothing NSFW) you have a recipe for repeated disaster.
Might wanna back away from the internet a few steps.
David, I had watched and shared this video before, that is bit in more detail on similar underwater photo shoot. Probably this might help to understand the setup better.
http://youtu.be/yZDFSaY1IlE
Black water is easier when they're swimming in open waters.
http://goo.gl/BCSe5
I tend to shoot at -2EV and a polarizer helps.
Regarding the dotted underline, in this post you have
span class="full post" (two classes)
instead of
span class="fullpost" (one class)
and the post class is the one adding the dotted underline. Changing to one word fullpost should do the trick.
Simon-
Thank you! The breaks are still broken, so must have been two separate issues. But thanks for the other catch. Won't make that mistake again...
:)
-D
This made me remember a shoot I took a few years ago.
I just had two lights coming from camera left and right a few inches above the surface and snooted to avoid the spill.
A ring flash was used just above the swimmer.
due to the underexposed ambiand the water stayed black.
here is the link I was talking about ;)
http://haristobald.blogspot.be/2008/12/photoshoot-3-rcbt-calendar-2009.html
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