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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 – Lighting the Set
The old joke is that the movie industry settled here because of the constant sunshine – Hollywood is the world's largest outdoor sound stage – and Kodak and the film industry settled in Rochester, New York – the world's largest darkroom. Having moved here after spending the seventies in Rochester – with no stops in-between – you get the joke. That seems about right. And here's the late September light, an alley in Hollywood –
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Santa Monica Boulevard, across the street from the Troubadour (favorite story – in 1974, John Lennon and his friend, Harry Nilsson, both quite drunk, were tossed out of the place for heckling the Smothers Brothers) a bit of Streamline Moderne all out of place these days, but the lighting was just right.
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Maybe it's better as a negative print. Blow it up, frame it, put it on the living room wall – your guests will be edgy and nervous.
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The glass tower at Sunset and Vine is far better as negative print – spooky.
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If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back this site.
Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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