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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Medium format / December 2004inside a photo studio
Interesting look behind the scenes at a large photo studio ... http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/pi-media-networks.shtml On 15/12/04 11:22 pm, in article 20041215182243.06685.00001092@mb-m24.aol.com, "Bill Hilton" <bhilton665@aol.comedy> wrote: > Interesting look behind the scenes at a large photo studio ... > > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/pi-media-networks.shtml 'Control' being the operative word, right down to the photographer. As impressive as it is, (and it is), I wouldn't fancy working there. >> Interesting look behind the scenes at a large photo studio ... >> >> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/pi-media-networks.shtml >From: teflon teflon@bluebottlefly.com > >'Control' being the operative word, right down to the photographer. >As impressive as it is, (and it is), I wouldn't fancy working there. I took away three major impressions ... 1) interesting to see how they totally replaced 8x10" and 4x5" sheet film with medium format digital, 2) interesting that they are bypassing CMYK prepress work in Photoshop and going straight to press (not a good trend for Adobe), 3) when all was said and done it looked like just another job, not very interesting to me at all ... I wouldn't want to do it every day five days a week :) >>> Interesting look behind the scenes at a large photo studio ... >>> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >to >do it every day five days a week :) Agreed. I prefer to have the majority of focus being placed on what's on the sweep (or table, etc.). At this place it feels like a huge company rather than a creative studio. One of my teachers from college had a fairly large studio (nowhere near as big as this), but the difference was he had 4 separate areas: -An area for storage of props/supplies. -A seating area off in another room for the subjects being shot or their agents, etc. -The actual studio area where the shoots took place. -An office, where all the business, paperwork and digital post-production work takes place. I loved it. Each area is completely separate from one another and each has their own specific purpose. > [...] 2) interesting > that they are bypassing CMYK prepress work in Photoshop and going straight > to > press (not a good trend for Adobe), Perhaps part of their contract specifies that the client gets PS output and then the client can deal with the prepress work. >> [...] 2) interesting >> that they are bypassing CMYK prepress work in Photoshop and going straight [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Perhaps part of their contract specifies that the client gets PS output and >then the client can deal with the prepress work. I don't know about commercial printing outfits, but in Canadian newspapers all prepress work is done by printers by union regulations. A photo editor is only allowed to adjust levels and choose cropping on images before sending them to the printers. f.cking unions...... > I don't know about commercial printing outfits, but in Canadian > newspapers all prepress work is done by printers by union regulations. Indeed. It was that way in my USA newspaper days, too. > I don't know about commercial printing outfits, but in Canadian > newspapers all prepress work is done by printers by union regulations. > A photo editor is only allowed to adjust levels and choose cropping on > images before sending them to the printers. Commercial printing (non - news) as I understand it may have unions at the floor labour level, but the pre-production (pre-press) side is not organized. These printers accept work with anything from camera ready to press ready. They're in a B2B model, so more competitive, more creative in their business approach.  Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. > press (not a good trend for Adobe), 3) when all was said and done it looked > like just another job, not very interesting to me at all ... I wouldn't want to > do it every day five days a week :) It looks like they do pretty much product phtography in a "project factory" and like you say, looks too 9-to-5 than like a photography career that has one exploring new things... Maybe these phtogogs have an evening hobby ... like ... photography. Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. |
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