Nicholas LaClair Photographer and Director for Print and Film

coloring between the lines

There seems no end to how impossibly far down the rabbit hole of Apple Color software I've gotten as I put the final grading on our  video. Until then, a snapshot into the work behind it (screenshot vertical of both monitors). When a Saturday night is for working ...

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There's something terrible about love. It uses up all one's moral judgement. Afterwards it is like returning to a system of values, or at least to the attempt.

- Tom Stoppard, "Hapgood"

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light test

light tests are a photographer's history book

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a throwback …

Steven Meisel, US Vogue May 2009

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The Singing Butler

I've been laying my head a lot of different places lately, and the other morning the first thing I noticed in a new room was this painting. It's a beautiful moment, and though there's something of interest to the surrealism of its inconsistencies, I couldn't get back to sleep due to their distraction ... the way the light falls the wrong way on the subjects (a higher source on the maid's dress and the dancer's arm than on their faces) or how the butler's handkerchief is blowing like mad but his umbrella is at the wrong angle to the wind. It's so idealized, but no less beautiful.

John Vettriano

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