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I’m gonna keep this behind-the-scenes look fairly short and sweet…kinda like my time with Bryan Cranston…because I think the portraits will sort of do all the heavy lifting. Ronnie Weil needed Mr. Cranston shot for Alexandra Wolfe’s ‘Weekend Confidential” feature in the Review section of the Wall Street Journal and I was happy enough to oblige. Here’s how we set up our pop-up studio at the London Hotel for what turned out to be a pretty great morning…
Unlike a lot of the hotel shoots I find myself in, the London gave us a pretty nice (and large) space to work with…nice enough that I was able to break out some of my really BIG guns…the 79″ Rime Lites…
Here’s how things looked with Robert standing in…
That set would allow me to do everything from full length to tight portraits, but I wanted to also have a more controlled lighting setup for another portrait, so we pulled out the beauty dish…
Here’s Kaz posing as fast as he can…
Alright…we’re ready to go. Mr. Cranston, you’re on!
Next, I broke out my favorite antique posing stool…
After a very quick 5 minutes…with his publicist doing the countdown mambo behind me…we moved over to the second set…
…and played around with the shadow and light on his face, getting progressively darker and moodier as we went along…
And here is the final story as it appeared in the Wall Street Journal…
And for you Breaking Bad fans, here’s a little Badfinger to play us out…
BADFINGER: BABY BLUE
Life is good when you love what you do…..
Damn Ugly Photography 
I’m not an anti-Dentite. I love this guy!
Our old buddy BryBry. I watched the HBO movie this weekend “All the Way” in which he plays LBJ. Awesome job, of course. You’d have to do the “try HBO for a month free” deal to watch it (or maybe you have HBO?) Debbie
Really appreciate the effort you put into sharing. Would love to know more about the backgrounds in this set and a few of the others. The color and the textures seem quite good. The Judy Collins one was my fav. Thanks.
I’m showing this to my kids. Beautiful work, explained nicely.
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looks absolutely different person ! great explain and using by light
Great read, simple lighting set up used to maximum effect. Awesome