Originally Posted By: Brent N
Please post your site. What did you do on Spiderman?


Some details on prints / posters / postcards here:

http://blog.kurtlawson.com/

I'm a compositor by day. I composited at Sony Pictures Imageworks on the Amazing Spiderman. My shots are all in the climax of the movie. I'm under strict NDA's to not say anything at all really, so I can't tell you more.

I guess it could be partly that I make fake images by day that I demand my photographs be of real landscapes captured in-camera. I hate compositing in photographs, and I get really dismayed when I read about other photographers warping mountains and painting out trees they don't like. I don't see any fun in that at all. Then, to me, it becomes what we at work would call a "visual effects shot." I don't work outside of work, so I keep my photography strictly to interpretations of scenes I captured with my camera. I'm not in the business creating photographic images by compositing on my home computer. There's no fun in it to me if I wasn't there to capture the magic light when it happened, or in this case the hard volunteer work of some of my friends who carried a huge LED lantern down the switchbacks in the total dark and cold that is the trail at night. That's just my personal philosophy with photography anyway. The 97 Switchbacks at Night is a single frame of Fuji Provia 100 film. An all-or-nothing gamble that turned out pretty good I think, and it looks magnificent in a photochemical Fujiflex print smile

-K