An Unforeseen Masterpiece with Charlize Theron
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- A photoshoot with famous celebrity Charlize Theron has been planned and booked by famous photographer Vincent Peters.
However, the photoshoot is thrown into disarray when Theron decides not to travel to Brooklyn, where the photoshoot was scheduled to take place. Despite the initial disappointment, the session is rebooked and Theron arrives in the studio but expresses dissatisfaction with the outfit chosen for the GQ cover photo.
Peters improvises by using a hotel bed sheet to create a stunning image of Theron that ends up on the cover of his book "The Light Between Us."
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00:00 Charlize Theron Photoshoot
00:36 Vincent Peters Photographer
01:02 GQ Photoshoot Going Pear Shaped
02:31 Charlize Theron And The Bed Sheet
03:23 The Awesome Photography Of Vincent Peters
04:36 Deciphering The Lighting Of Fashion Photography
06:24 Getting Beautiful Black And White Tones In Photography
08:57 The Theatre Of Photography
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I thought of the great masters of photography in Hollywood in the twenties, thirties and forties while watching this. Their work was sublime. I have many books of the portraits from this time and they are timeless in their beauty. Even the male actors were taken to the next level in the shoots back then. The lighting was brilliant. George Hurrell was one of them.
I'm not a photographer by any means, but I appreciate the storytelling and information. What ran through my mind after hearing the story about Charlize was "doesn't she have an assistant?" "Didn't anyone tell her about Brooklyn beforehand?" "Did someone ask her what she wanted, what her vision was?". Communication is so important. But yes, first world problems for sure.
It looks like the communication centered around who was the boss
My thoughts exactly Annika. Did she agree through her people first and then change her mind or wasn't aware of the plans? The whole thing annoys me because it feels like a power move without caring who gets hurt ... the wardrobe person, the place originally reserved and an international photographer's time and inconvenience.
This channel is something else... finally someone who's talking about photography!
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I’m always amazed how many photographers love gear but have so little interest in photography. I too love seeing channels that actually talk about photography. :-)
Besides the camera and great lighting, the gorgeous professional models also figure in maybe 50% of the greatness of the photos? Not many photographers have that luxury.
In the good old days when I used to have my work retouched by Metro (now sadly gone) in London, I remember seeing images by Vincent Peters (along with Mert and Markus) being worked on by the talented artists there, The retouchers did a great job of turning out amazing results, but I always taken with how fabulous his work was / is. You covered it here, it's filmic, full of narrative and always sooooo beautiful. I've always loved it.
Last weekend I was lucky to see Vincent Peters at the Photopia convention in Hamburg where he gave a mind-blowing speech. It was very deep and philosophical. And I noticed that his own appearance somehow perfectly matched the people he photographs. He said we don't take photos of things as THEY are but as WE are. Our mood, emotions, past experiences, the joy and suffering, all this is reflected in your images. Also, pictures are a part of you outside of you and good images should confront you. Not only do you look at the photo, the photo also looks back at you, triggers emotions or memories. A good photo makes you feel less alone in the world. Vincent asked: do you want your photography to impress or to express?
Really fascinating!
I love it so much the way you actually FEEL and talk about the feel of the photographs you describe, and the way you go about telling the thinking process and analysis from artistic perspective...
I like to think of Photography much more than just technique and gear, and you manage to communicate that illusive artistic part so well!
Easily my go-to place on YT to hear a photographer actually think and feel art!
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Well, if Vincent Peters can have a bad day, I guess the rest of us can. But as far as going from Manhattan to Brooklyn, it's not the distance that's the issue.... Not sure what Vincent does with the lighting but its amazing.
Thank you for the stories! The images are so stunning, this is perfection!
Hi Alex.
Thank you for sharing this story. It's always interesting to hear how people solve problems on shoot days
FYI:
500watt Tungsten lights, snoots, barn doors, and scrim on the front to soften everything up. Plus, a 10 x 8 Gandolfi. The kit being used in the studio for my first week as a photographers assistant many moons ago.
Brian Griffin is one of my favourite studio photographers.
Great photos.
love this video so inspiring
Thank you. All the best. 👍📷😎
Finally more pictures than endless spoken words. Very beautiful photographs btw.
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A by gone art form. These photos immortalize these people ❤
This is great - Vincent Peters has been a favorite photographer since I first saw his work. And his books are excellent - large and beautifully printed. Having a Mamiya RZ myself, I can believe it has lasted him for decades - it truly is a tank of a camera. (Gregory Heisler used one also and referred to it (lovingly) as.a "Donkey" of a camera.) Thanks for giving Vincent Peters some of the recognition he deserves - I'm always surprised he isn't better known.
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Absolutely loving your videos!
Thank you
This video is a wonderful source of inspiration. Thank You!
See what happens when you don't let pride, anger, jealousy & envy get the best of you! This is how we were made to interact with each other. ❤️🙏
Thank you! Very interesting! It's just what makes me train seeing but not only looking and watching)))...
It was so nice to hear that Peters' uses a medium format film camera and hot lights. Our prof had us shoot both with strobe and hot lights. This was in the mid nineties before digital became de rigor. Big big difference. I have Jean-Loup Sieff's monograph. My fav monograph.
Very interesting, thank you for creating and posting this.
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Another great video Alex. Thanks!
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I really enjoy watching you talk about his work. Always admired his style.
Im so happy I stumbled onto this video. Fantastic.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing these amazing portraits and your excellent insights! Ta very much! PS: Looking forward to the group teaching series!
Thank you.
You are a masterful storyteller! So much good photography knowledge, such good teaching but your stories take all of this to the next level. Thank you Alex! 👋🇨🇦
Wow, thank you!
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And thank you Exploring Canada, I started formulating a response to the original post and then realised that you had just already said it all!
Огромное спасибо! Как же безумно вкусно, с каким наслаждением и любовью это рассказано!
Always such an inspiration. Thank you Alex !
Thank you for watching
Great story!!!
What a wonderful video - your passion is inspirational
Thank you
This is a great story. More please
Thank you
I was on Vincent Peter's exhibition in Malan last weeks. Fantastic pictures. !
Brilliant ! I've always admired that photo and had no idea how it came to be. Thanks so much
brilliant..
Oh wow, very challenging situation for Mr. Vincent Peters! But then again we must embrace as soon as one can the challenge. In the case of Photographers of the level of Vincent Peters this is the opportunity to show how good they really are, by creating incredible images. I think there is a phrase that says "do the very best you can with what you have no matter where you are". Thanks Alex Kilbee for all the great content and knowledge you share with us all in this great channel!
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Fabulous... i feel a book purchase coming on 🙂
wonderful video . Thank you!
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Thank you so much! Great insights.
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Excellent and informative video!! I had never heard of Vincent Peters until today and I LOVE his photos!!
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Love the way you talk about photography and happy to put a name of this old black and white I always love si ce I am a kid and discover a great photographer I didn’t know
Its really an era of its own class. These pic's awesome
This is the channel for photography! Its soo good! Thankyou
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Great video thanks...Amazing images and the guy is a master of light and pose. True glamour at its best. Thanks for uploading.
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Vincent brings the person to life in a beautiful way.
Indeed one of my favourite photographers. There is something about his images that is captivating. And I think you described it perfectly. Cheers
Thank you
I like that, the 'theatre of photography'
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing!
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Vincent Peters. Is. The. Best.
Thanks once again
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If i look at the foto's apart of the fantastic light , i am drown to the eyes the soul of the person who is been photographed. Very impressive photo's.
Nicely done Alex! A very inspiring video. A photographers vision will always trump the use of any photographic equipment. Vincent Peters images remind me a little of Herb Ritts Photography. Both are masters of their lighting techniques & the equipment that they use to express their vision.😊
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This is just what I needed today. I'm just about to shoot three Portrait shoots this week. Landscape has been what I'm used to shooting so I needed some tips. Your video gave me a few ideas on what to look for in the shots. Thanks!
Awesome, thanks for watching
Ohh Lord… what a story 😳🙈🙈
It's great to know that he was using one camera all those years, and serves to remind us that it is not the camera, but the person behind the lens/camera that creates these wonderful images. In these days of digital photography, we have been totally bewitched by technology and sold the hype that megapixels, sharpness, sensor resolution, contrast, AI technology, brand names, bokeh, etc etc are the only sure way to improve our images and skills set. I have been through all these hype for many years, and now, I have gone back to using my old and trusted Olympus E-PL6 and Nikon D200 because I find they fit my needs, give me all I wanted and provide me with even greater satisfaction than using my Fuji X-T4 (which I'm selling)!
Lesson learned for myself, don't get fooled by all the hype, just master the tools that you have and become a better photographer.
I started using a FujiFilm x100V
I as well. Got caught up in all the digital gear and the latest and greatest till one day I was in a thrift store about fours years back and spotted a Rollei 66. I was intrigued and recall back in the 80’s I’ve always wanted one but couldn’t afford it. I was told that it was from an estate sale and just gotten in two days earlier. The lady pulled out a box of four lenses and multiple accessories and about 100 rolls of 120 film. I just kind of shrugged thinking she would ask a pretty penny. She said 800 cash. I looked at it and gotten intimate with it and examined it closely. Went to the ATM down the street and I had a Rollei. I’m back to film and it’s now 80% of my work
Well, the Mamiya RZ 67 was a top of the line professional medium format camera. Big, heavy, expensive - in the film realm it would have been considered very much about the camera, and the format is part of how he gets those nice tonalities..
Star making photography 😘
Thanks for a fun and instructive video. When I shoot with film, the pro models know that I'm getting a lot fewer frames, and that can really focus their energy and attention. But the same limitation could be intimidating to folks just sitting for a portrait I imagine.
Wow, that Vincent Peter's takes outstanding portraits ! Matt Osborne aka Mr. Leica does outstanding artistic portraits as well.
Good stuff, Alex. Like many here, I have SEEN Vincent's work many times before, but never realized who he was. Looking at some of the images, I would have thought that he had possilbly used a (smaller) silver bounce umbrealla (or a white beauty dish???). Anyway, thanks again for introducing us to another really talented photographer.
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Mono fashion photography is quite a challenge. Thought provoking topic.
He shoots just as much in colour.
Brilliant!
I find a similar reaction when shooting in the studio (admittedly rare here). While the subject is milling about, I fire the big strobes and the crack immediately centers them and they feel something special is about to happen. Something that has them in the center of it.
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I love your channel so much.
Greetings from Cologne.
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Interesting thing about Fresnel lenses, is that they can provide a kind of "sunlight" light, parallel 'rays', over a fairly large area, because they are long focal length, with a huge aperture... So a big Fresnel lens, used close up, provides a flat light, but with the ability to give almost crisp shadows, if needed, but, with a tiny bit of diffusion, skylight...
Peter’s work is very much in the style of George Hurrell, one of my favorite all time photo artists.
A fantastic story. Thx for the share.
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That's why he's a pro and why he's so acclaimed! I own all of his books, every page is a masterpiece!
There's an exhibition of his work now in Milano, I managed to attend to the vernissage and he was there. Such a cool yet easy going human being!
Wow. That’s awesome
Manhattan and Brooklyn are across the river from each other. Now you know why I am looking at getting a cine lens. That old time beauty that modern lenses just can't achieve.
I'm 70. when I was young I was good-looking and didn't know it. I met a woman who was a model in Africa and London years before. She said "we're going for a walk, you are going to meet my friend" and we walked up to Sunset Boulevard and to a building next to the liquor store at Crescent Heights and Sunset. She introduced me to Norman Seeff, whose work I was aware of. She thought that just bringing me to his studio would inspire him. He was not inspired by our presence. "let's bug out, he doesn't want to photograph either one of us" I whispered to my friend. 1975.
Well moisturized skin also helps the light bounce of the skin.
Gives the shadows of the skin deeper tones also. . .
Great trick !
I potential nightmare resolved with simplicity. Great presentation.
You talk so well about photography
I had the chance to do a masterclass with him at Venezia Photo Festival, Vincent is really fascinating in his approach to photography, he is inspired a lot by Italian cinema and having worked with him he always uses his RZ67 with a 110 or 180 lens and Portra 160 later convert in Black & White, his assistant uses a digital canon 6D to confirm the settings and for the light : Arri HMI fresnels and silver reflectors !
Oh, interesting he shoots with Portra 160 and converts it to black and white. Is that done digitally or analog?
@@artstove probably scanned. Since he shoots film there isn't a need to change cameras because it's the lens and the film that are affecting image quality.
The camera is just a light tight box. Keeping the same film camera for decades is not a fascinating thing because there's very little need to change other than if it stops working.
A bucket without a hole.
Excellent video, thanks a lot!!!! Vincent Peters is also one of my favorite photographers. You also might enjoy his "Selected Works Collector's Edition". Loved the story you told.
On the other hand - What drives me, is trying to distill the essence of the "why" this (B&W, hot-lights, film, medium/large format) feels/looks that way and how to transpose it into my thoroughly modern world. I am emotional, but driven by (my) different emotions. To me the nostalgia of the clunky, heavy camera, or of film distracts me negatively. I repeatedly tried it again in the last years, but it did not work for me - beautiful Hasselblad loaners, film bodies for my lenses, etc. I'm not a romantic who just adores the glorious past, which to me "old fart" was far less glorious most of the time than the now. I felt liberated, once I could move from film to digital.
I want to distill the good, interesting essence of it and transport it into my modern environment. I love that my equipment feels right for me, becomes an extension of me, but I don't fancy its quirks/dents/looks/brand, and hate it when I feel restricted by it.
I'm now 60, and 4 years into my photography journey. 4 years into trying to define what it is that makes me go "Yeah'. And here it is in a book, and the work of one man. I watch pretty much everything you do and for me, this has had the biggest impact. Shame the book is nearly £400, but still, there are other sources of information. Thanks for this.
There's another book of this photographer's work that is quite affordable. I believe it's the same publisher.
Genuinely enjoyed the exposition
Just came back from the Vincent Peters exhibition in Milan and found your channel. Great content
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I love my RB 67
His other book _Personal_ is back in print, and can generally be found for much less than The Light Between Us.
Thanks for that tip. "Selected Works" also seems to be in print.
His work reminds me a little bit of Peter Lindbergh's work, who is my absolute favourite photographer. Lindbergh had a more rough or less sophisticated touch, which I love.
You spoke of that intangible difference between film and digital, you also made reference to a musicians favorite instrument. I listen to Beethoven's Moonlight sonata on my 1911 gramophone as well as a high fidelity recording from the late sixties on Lp, ( Ah Karajin). Other times I will listen to it on my number whitch, ( computer). Same sheet music, same instruments but each is different. You hear scratches and pops hiding an already low fidelity recording where as I hear time on my hundred year old edison player. I experience the duration of all things as revealed by Beethoven. The Lp affords me an ombeance that is more than just the room where the noise and microphones were. There is a magic lent to the recording on Lps' that I can not express without a guitar and camera. Digital, I can hear the shape of the room, if the signal was powerful enough to fill the space where it was recorded. There is a specific modern recording of Vivaldi's Summer that I like. In my mind I can see the corners of the walls where they meet the ceiling; it is a sublime experience. It was Beethoven who taught me, ( not in person mind you), that as we busy ourselves with the details of life, it is actualy the little things that fill all the spaces and sift twixt our fingers and teeth that make life, the grain of it all. Use it all I say and live your best life. Thank you for this great essay, I always leave them feeling empowered or affirmed some way or another; an artists figity perch in life I guess.
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Best clavicles in the business, Ms. Theron.
You nailed it when you said "marble" the subject has to be made to look like they possess a soul, when they are vapid. In a lot of the photos its the lighting that is the star, not the person.
As a photographer that only photographs on a RB67 (older than RZ), it is easy to get attached too if you do not give up on it. It is a process to use which is why some love it and some hate it.
I still shoot Tri-X occasionally for the"feel" you are talking about in my street/documentary. As a little bit of a surprise, I use a vintage Yashica Electro35 GS that my dad bought in London in 1972 (I even have his receipt). Course I am not looking for the look that Peters does but lean more toward the HCB feel.
I'm 60 now and I'm still shooting with 1980s minolta 35mm film camera x-700.
If it not broken don't fix.
If it daybreak repair it.
Leticia Casta literally looks like a sculpture Ooooooompfh so beautiful
Many of actor Gary Cooper's photos capture Vincent Peters's lighting and sculptural quality.
Thank you. Magisterial stories and information.
I’ve always said that the best models are good actors and the good actors are the greatest models.
Definitely old Hollywood glamor shots, the shadows giving definition, contrast, I am no photographer, my Father was so I observed how he took shots,watched close& he also developed his own shots as well.
I think the key difference in film is that each stock has a very unique characteristic of dynamic range, and film as a whole, has a different dynamic range from digital. It can be emulated, sure, but you get the uncanny valley effect, where a perfect emulation is missing out on the slight imperfections and variations that come with a physical medium. Shooting digital is like drawing on a whiteboard, a perfect surface that responds exactly to what you do to it. Film is drawing, painting, scraping, etc...The material the image is being created on, and the material being laid on the surface, changes the image itself.
When I had a film Hasselblad camera the pictures of people were really nice.
I read somewhere that the famous poster shot of Farrah Fawcett in the swimsuit that adorned everyone's wall back in the day - the background was an old beach blanket the photographer had covering the seat of his car. Apparently it was impromptu that he threw it in as a makeshift background for the photo. Sometimes spontaneity results in iconic images.
I think I’ve noticed that the transition from specular highlights to the lightest values is smoother and more gradual on film. Maybe some digital sensors can capture it the same way, but none of mine. It lends that sumptuous look.
Interesting talk. Old Fresnel lens lights. Mmmmm. Might be something to try out for fun. Have a friend go pick an outfit from the antique shops or thrift store.
You're the matchless storyteller & expert united in one person: It is lyrics focused on the story behind the action and the results - I cannot but say 'chapeau!' Further you are a convincing, nearly seducing 'head of mission' as concerns monochrome (black&white) photography at its best. I love it - it's really great and 'standalone';-)) RR
Thank you.
Great content, I really enjoyed it. Thank you, Alex.
Laetitia Casta is wildly beautiful in those photos.
Interesting video and great researched story. I enjoyed listening to it. Film wont ever die. It's just too good. I can relate to Vincent Peters attachment to his Mamiya. I've had my V-System Hasselblad for over 12 years now and use it for everything. It's like a spare arm. As for the Fresnel Lights - they are excellent for that old Hollywood style.