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John Lund interviews photographer Marc Romanelli file
Marc Romanelli has been successful shooting stock for more than twenty years. He has his Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with his wife and baby daughter. Marc images are handled by Getty for still and moving images, Corbis (movement) Creatas (movement), and Workbookstock Hi, Blend, Bluemoon, and Alamy for still images.
John, Marc, I know who have been rolling stock for a long time … and now you can not shoot the tasks that fill us with his early career;. how he became a shooter market?
I started painting, drawing and sculpture as a child and only picked up a camera at age 17. I started to photograph objects that are … crushed cans, metal tree bark, rusty … I showed the world through the lens of a 55mm Micro Nikkor. Seeing that close to me was a revelation, to be followed by wide-angle lens that distorts the reality of another wonderful way.
I started buying my portfolio around Manhattan and finally bothered Life magazine give me some work. It has a deck of modern photography at 23, and then signed with Bank of images at 24. From the outset it was realized that the freedom offered the action was the way I go. I traveled a lot with very low budgets, maintained a very low overhead, while in the country and shot plowed travel benefits.
About 20 years ago took a decision to concentrate on shooting people, feel comfortable with the direction of people in recreational sports shooting with the (then) recently moved to western mountain … Santa Fe This eventually turned into shooting lifestyle and anything else that struck my fancy, including some things fine arts.
Juan: Not that the license of its own shares only through licensed agencies, or both? Which agencies are involved in your work?
Not my own license, and I am not represented by Getty for still and moving images, Corbis (movement), Create (movement), and Workbookstock Hi, Blend, Bluemoon, and Alamy for still images.
Juan: RF, MRI or micro?
RM and RF shot. Have not shot the Micro and probably not in the future.
Juan: You shoot moving and still images. How long have you been shooting motion and how he came into this field?
I started shooting motion in 1997. I call it the "second wave" of images of boys of the Bank having wet feet shooting motion. I had the intuition that leads me to the natural. I had an Arri 16, a 3 mm Arri BL2, and now a Panasonic HVX200 (cheaper on sale).
Juan: Do not you find you need a different skill set for the filming of motion?
different skill set … totally the movement must create an arc in time, perhaps 20 to 30 seconds and tell a story. You are responsible for moving the camera and / or subject in time and space and not rely a decisive move that crystallized in a single frame.
John: How does the movement in your future plans?
The movement is an integral part of my business image, and an ever more important. The art is still forcing shooters recognize that the 1080 hybrid cameras capable of shooting stills and motion files are here to stay. The world sees the move as the most natural, emotional and effective way to communicate.
Juan: How do you approach a log of actions? That is, ideas, plans, casting, etc.
Focus on what you do best seems to work (in an environment increasingly volatile.) One of the keys that I try to take advantage is the question "How does it feel real, authentic"? Easier said than done.
Especially now, as the experienced Visual Paradigm too radical a change, expansion, and the focus on himself … reality, community, shared responsibility, and contraction. I work very intuitively … I miss friends and people I know who have a feel, I rarely work with models.
Also, do not shoot in a studio. My preference is to find real places. This may present problems, but I prefer the authentic feel of a workplace.
Juan: Are you involved with the world of fine art?
I entered the world of art, have had a solo exhibition of my personal work black and white shown in Santa Fe and a group show as well.
Juan: What that most satisfying about your job?
I enjoy photographing my 3 years old. She keeps my chops razor sharp picture and the picture visually my intuition mercury high alert … attempts to capture!
John: Anything else you want to share?
I think my decision to do a session of values is determined by comparing the talent to location, without losing sight of how it could differentiate my pictures of what it is.
I tend towards what I call "the situation" shoot shoot lifestyle that are based in reality and subscribe to the idea that the end users of my images are essentially looking for uplifting, inspiring and positive images. In fact, sometimes the most positive that leaves a session is the relationship, interaction and communication with the talent and they are friends or acquaintances. It is as if there is a kind of "cargo residues, positively" that has been created by the action of the picture going. Usually, if my experience is that I have done a good job of capturing something.
The industry is in flux. What you see now the biggest challenges for you as a stock shooter? How do you deal with these challenges?
Our business is evolving at great speed and the engine is the digital revolution, the mass democratization also called "crowdsourcing," the availability of exceptional and affordable digital cameras now and new portals and sales platforms for the creation of a surplus, an excess of buyers chasing each image less. This is particularly true now in light of our fragile economy.
What to do? I choose to shoot what I know, shoot what feels However, diversification by shooting motion and still images, the search for new agencies to build their book collections quickly did, loading them with images, but without forgetting the "girl that brought you to the dance" in the first place … which would be the agency's bread and butter. In my case This body is Getty.
Juan: Marc, thanks for sharing that with us!
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