Hi Igor,
Thanks for the kudos.
I was assigned to shoot the pics. I worked with the editor of this
buff book at /Popular Mechanics/ years ago, and I did a lot of buff
book shoots in the seventies and eighties. I also worked on Dodge
advertising, so their PR people knew me as well.
Getting started? Turning back the clock, I first got involved in
magazine photography back in the mid seventies. I started by writing
for some of the automotive buff books. When I complained about the
rather meager earnings, the editor told me that some of the money had
to go to the photographer. "I can do that," I told him, not quite
knowing what I was getting into. I wasn't a total photography novice,
but pretty close. But I set up a darkroom (most of the pics were BW in
those days), bought an SLR and two lenses and went to work. I think I
had my first cover about four years later, shooting Ektachrome with a
TSLR Mamiya C220.
The trick to getting involved in magazine journalism lies in finding a
subject about which you have considerable knowledge. There are a
hundred photographers out there for every writer, so if you can
provide copy and pics, you have a big head start on the other 99
photogs.
Now I get some work that is strictly photography, but that was a long
haul. Most of my magazine assignments are still copy or copy and pics.
I'll have to take a look at that grille. I assumed that the magazine
art directors went in and lightened the grid one bar at a time, but
they might have comped in a grille from another Challenger photo. If
the angle was a bit different, the geometry would change.
Paul
On Jan 9, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
Paul, great results, congratulations!
I am not sure if it is just an optical illusion, but it seems that
when
they redrew the grille, they changed it. On the original photo, the
openings appear to be square, if not slightly elongated horizontally.
On the retouched photo, they are rectangular, being longer
vertically then
horizontally.
It might be the result of the light-shadow (white-black colors) on the
retouched photo.
If you don't mind, - I am curious, - how did you get your photo
published in a journal like this? Were you comissioned in advance,
did you have just a prior tentative discussion with the editor, or
you submitted it after the fact without any prior arrangement?
Igor
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