Having a studio (and a home) in tribeca is like living on a movie set. Not only because crews are constantly shooting films and doing still shoots down here, but also because it’s all so damn genuine and photogenic. There are very few days that pass when I’m not walking the dog past some set and Charlie is eyeing the food on the craft services table. I on the other hand am eyeing all the gear and all the people. Oh man, the shoot I could do with all those lights and all that gear and that crew of 40 people! Tribeca definitely always keeps you thinking. Case in point, last summer when I walked outside and my entire block was covered in classic Manhattan grey winter slush. I was really thrown off – I mean it was like 70 degrees out there. I was totally baffled until along came a set decorator who started pouring mounds of kosher salt on my doorstep and then squirting it with a bottle of black liquid. Voila – instant 3 day old NYC snow.
Anyway, I digress.
Irena and Billy live in the area and hired me to create engagement portraits for them in Tribeca and on the Brooklyn Bridge. It was important to them that we incorporate things into the images so that the location could be identified even by out-of-towners.
Below my trusty Tilt-shift lens helps me focus not only on Irena’s beautiful eyes, but also on the glass sidewalk vault steps. Tribeca has tons of these glass sidewalk vaults since this was primarily a shipping area and companies used every square inch they could get to warehouse their goods. Including underground. But to let a little light in below they inserted these purple glass circles in the cast iron vaults.
This one is for a perfume advertisement.
An homage to Irena’s modeling days…
by bd
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