Category Archives: Motion Picture Stories

Richard Lund tells stories about his work in motion pictures, television, and other visual media.

Money, Money, Moneyball…

I still love baseball. The game, not the experience of being a fan necessarily. And the big league ball parks are a world to themselves. Got to visit one recently. Athletics’ home field. Shot a backing for Moneyball, the new … Continue reading

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Changing shooting titles can be confusing…

Don’t know about your memory, but mine can be just out of sorts, if you know what I mean… So, don’t ask me to title your next film. I will probably not have an catchy ideas about that. In fact, … Continue reading

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Hanging out on the roof can be a good thing…

Every location that has two things is a great location. Water and bathroom top the list. I got what I needed in Atlanta last year. This nice young lady called me up to arrange my trip to Atlanta to shoot … Continue reading

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Finally, a hotel with style…

Most of my time away travelling is spent in pursuit of my objective: making the best pictures I can for my translites. But sometimes I take a detour. For twenty-seven years of my career as a translite photographer, I dragged … Continue reading

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String theory, a new way to see people…

Some ideas take a while to percolate. Guess that is a word that is out of use. Hint: it has something to do with old fashioned coffee makers… So, on this one, I go a ways back. All the way … Continue reading

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Making connections…

So today I will talk about somebody who knows how to make connections. More about that in a New York minute… Ken Hardy is a regular guy who works hard every day at a job he loves. Of late he … Continue reading

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Another guy named Dick…er, Richard

You may not know his name, but you have seen his style. Another guy who called me Dick. We Dicks get along fine with one another. I see that a news reader got into serious hot water of the name … Continue reading

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Just the house across the street…

Sometimes I shoot pictures of the proverbial “house across the street.” Okay, mostly boring stuff… It happens that a production designer wants a translite photo backing of the house just opposite the “hero” location. This can be at street level … Continue reading

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Welcome to my world – the strange case of baby vision…

What do we see when we come into this world? And what do we learn to do with that sensory input? Let’s have a look… Sometimes I see a picture on facebook in someone’s album and it is sideways. That’s … Continue reading

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What Santa really does with his time off…

The next frame is closer. This particular frame is from the last part of the short film. I loved the play of light. Better detail on his face. As we move in to a tight close-up, we see more of … Continue reading

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