Tag Archives: Richard Lund

Let the black and white reproduce way beyond Kodachrome colors…

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Richard Lund

How glamorous is Hollywood, anyway? Well, it depends on you point of view, I guess. Sometimes I have been in on the beginnings of television shows. Got to work on most of the start ups for Law & Order. And … Continue reading →

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Hanging out on the roof can be a good thing…

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Richard Lund

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…

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Richard Lund

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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Vintage cities show their roughness in lovely ways…

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Richard Lund

People and buildings may not look much alike, but we can appreciate both for similar reasons: their roughness. Let’s have a look. My travels sometimes take me to interesting places. I look at location photography from a completely self-focused perspective, … Continue reading →

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Making connections…

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Richard Lund

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

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Richard Lund

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…

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Richard Lund

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…

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Richard Lund

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…

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Richard Lund

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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Great plans plus skill sets make for great work…

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Richard Lund

Tom Valentine was one art director who spared no effort in planning. This is the story of Tom and the Spider-Man 2 backings.   People who design film are all over the place in skill sets. To my way of … Continue reading →

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