How Art Streiber Shot 100 Hollywood Stars in Less Than Six Minutes

I saw a story about this photo on the TV last week. Paramount wanted to assemble 100 celeberites in one room for a massive group shot in celebration of their 100^th anniversary. I thought it was impossible, and then i found this YouTube video about the behind the scenes of the making of this great portrait. =)

Art Streiber works with the motto, “The answer is yes, now what’s the question?" What a great inspiring photographer.

According to the story on FStoppers, Art fired 63 frames on a Hasselblad H2 camera with a Phase One IQ-160 back and a 150mm lens, in just five minutes and forty-two seconds . He shot the photo in three sections, and in post production, the left, middle, and right sections were merged into the final triple page spread that appeared in Vanity Fair. All 116 people were on stage at one time. Nobody was stitched into the photo. 

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Trends to Mainstream!

There is a distinct difference between a “trend” and something that has passed on into “mainstream”. But what is that difference? To answer this question, one has to look at the definitions of the terms first and then look behind the mere words to gain a valid interpretation.

Here’s what the Oxford Dictionaries say about the word trend: “a general direction in which something is developing or changing”.

And here’s what it says about mainstream: “the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional”.

This seems simple enough and only little further elaboration shall be made on the mere words. Next to the literal meaning, these definitions put the two terms into direct correlation to each other: while mainstream is that which is “shared by most people”, a trend is “developing” – it can be inferred that a trend always precedes mainstream.

And in fact, the author could not recall a single case where something or someone skipped the trend stage and went right from nothing to everything. It’s simply unheard of.

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