beckett on TV

sineadw

I'm lying here watching the TV show, and reminded that it's one of my all-time favourite portraits:



Wow...

Just postng this.. Does anyone have a proper rights attribution? Strangely, I couldn't find one..

DaireQuinlan

" I'm not an artist, I'm a photographer !" :-)

positivenote

it really is a striking portrait alright... id love to take some close up b/w portraits of people i know similiar to this, anyone any ideas what iso he would have shot at or grade in the print .. just the detail in the image is excellent. would he have used any lighting set up?

any tips id appreciate it

DaireQuinlan

positivenote wrote: »

it really is a striking portrait alright... id love to take some close up b/w portraits of people i know similiar to this, anyone any ideas what iso he would have shot at or grade in the print .. just the detail in the image is excellent. would he have used any lighting set up?

any tips id appreciate it

He was shooting medium format throughout the documentary (rolleicord or flex or something ) so he might have used something similar to shoot the portrait, although it does look quite wide. Nice slow grain free B&W like pan F combined with 6x6 will give you tons of detail.
Window light only apparently. He notes in the documentary that Becket smiled as he came in to the cafe and saw him sitting beside the window because he knew what he was up to.

positivenote

didnt get a chance to see the doc but hopefully it'll be on the rte website... would love to capture similar tones and detail in my portraits.