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IMAGE ANATOMY
Polish photographer and art director Karol Tomaszewski gets to
shoot a pop star – any way he wants to.
“Everyone has their own style of a fantastic new-found freedom. the ground.
course, but it’s still a montage - a Recently I was asked to take Strobes were
combination of individual pictures of ‘Michael’ – a well-known supposed to be
experience, laced with
Polish pop singer, but in a 20% stronger
recollections of the work of other
completely different way to the than sunlight.
artists studied in youth – all
typical; ‘cool rocker with semi-naked This way I could capture a dark sky,
absorbed and then applied in
babes’, style that frequently and the light with wide reflector for
practical terms to the equipment
predominates in this genre. the trees, created those ‘unreal’
you have to work with.
shiny leaves. Then a spotlight
I decided to create something totally around Michael’s legs.
My mentors were really the
different – maybe with a hint of the
impressionists. In their paintings light
style of the new James Bond We also shot in a cornfield. This
is everything. But when it comes to
character – audacious with a touch session presupposed that Michael
atmosphere I am always moved by
of passion and perhaps even a hint would move – it’s very difficult to set
the art of American painter Edward
of madness. The brief from the client up lights for a mobile model in the
Hopper, whose iconic work was
was simple: “Shoot it any way you middle of corn field – and that shoot
described by novelist John Updike
like”. took well over 30 min, but it was
as ‘calm, silent, stoic, luminous and
worth it. After adding a dark blue tint
classic’.
The photo-shoot took place over a on shadows and a little correction of
late autumn weekend. The weather colours and contrast I sent these
I started out shooting landscapes
was fantastic, just a smattering of photos to the client.
and my first professional equipment
cloud. I worked with a small reflector,
comprised the Bowens 750+ heads
a fill-in light (from soft ring flash), and Now I’m just waiting to see my work
kit with Travelpak, which allowed me
two lights to light up the trees and on CD covers in the stores.”
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