See the finished images here, along with movies. Incredibly gorgeous, rich, surreal.
The incredibly talented photographer/digital illustrator Mark Holthusen wrote this about his experience creating spectacular images like this one for Roger Waters’ opera Ça Ira:
“I was lucky enough to spend a couple months working on one of the most chaotic, fulfilling and challenging projects of my career with Roger Waters, a founding member of Pink Floyd. Hired only a month before a mid-November debut, I was to create the visual narration for Water’s opera on the French Revolution. The opera would show in Rome, and rather than traditional sets, the audience would watch only a chorus accompanied by projected photo illustrations. I was to create 15 images for Ca Ira.
Unbeknownst to me, the seemingly daunting, original, 15-photo project turned into the creation of over 200 images. Naively, I began building a series of miniature backdrop sets in San Francisco and moved to NY to “finish them up.”
After days of casting actors and holding meetings, I began to realize the project’s scope. Following a solid week of shooting the cast, we edited the 7000 photographs and began the post-production process. I locked myself in an apartment for another week and started digitally constructing the final shoots.
During the last phase of the project, I moved to (into, really) Sony’s Visualize studios, where the whole Ca Ira production team worked 18 hour days. No breaks, no sleep, just a client services book to keep us going.
Evergrowing Studio built an amazing new site for samples from this project; the site features photos, movie footage and soundtrack clips from Ca Ira.”
very nice. Incredible lighting, color, and focus in all of those photos!! Love the lighting and shadows the most.