Greatest Director Portrait Ever!

[Batutta]

Orson Welles on The Chimes at Midnight--

 

[TimurCivan]

Ever.

 

[CallaghanFilms]

Ever ever.

 

[David G. Smith]

Wow. Where Can I get a high resolution version of that?

 

[ryan brown]

I'm totally gonna steel this and make my own...

 

[Batutta]

Wow. Where Can I get a high resolution version of that?

I don't think it's commercially available. It was posted over at Aint it Cool News. Someone there found a catalog of the photographer's work online, with some other great photos. This shot says 'hi-res available' but no info on how to get it--

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalog...ght-by-US-director-Orson-WELLES-NN143511.html

 

[Rippie]

Hmmm this looks just like one I did of myself a few years ago.

 

[Batutta]

My sig line is directed at you, Rippie.

 

[Rippie]

My sig line is directed at you, Rippie.

nice!

 

[Pookie]

I like this one better...

 

[bruce southerland]

Are you not going to credit the photographer?

 

[aalleexx]

damn what a powerful image, anyone want to take a crack at what the lighting setup was?

 

[Pookie]

Batutta already included a link to the photographers website.

 

[ugafan]

 

[Rippie]

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haha thats great!

 

[Pookie]

Damnedest thing...:undecided

Whenever I try to put Cameron onto the body, I just can't do it, nothing will make the head smaller.

Hmm.......:huh:

 

[ugafan]

Damnedest thing...:undecided

Whenever I try to put Cameron onto the body, I just can't do it, nothing will make the head smaller.

Hmm.......:huh:

sounds like you may have to convert it to a 3D image.

 

[David G. Smith]

sounds like you may have to convert it to a 3D image.

and spend $200, 000, 000.00 doing it!

 

[simonpwood]

and spend $200, 000, 000.00 doing it!

Change his skin tone to blue and you're done.

 

[MattinSTL]

damn what a powerful image, anyone want to take a crack at what the lighting setup was?

My guess is natural light with a bounce-card or light wall/surface behind the photographer. The brick wall behind the shaft of light is softly illuminated by light reflected off the dust/smoke in the shaft... with a gradual fall-off also from the same bounced light that's hitting Wells.

The shot itself was almost certainly taken with "standard" black and white film... which has a much higher latitude then digital, and a stop+ better DR performance then color film... which is (depending on when you read this)... probably a couple stops better then digital... hence the "awe" at the great lighting.

If you happened to be standing around with a film cam... it would probably have been easy