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Director Ramin Bahrani just remade the classic Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451, for HBO…and I got the call from Jennifer Dorn at Variety to shoot him for this weeks issue. Kaz and I packed up the bus and headed downtown to HBO in midtown and here’s how things turned out…
First, we set up my favorite cement wall drop from Gravity Backdrops for kind of a raw look…
Pretty simple lighting setup…just an 8″ fresnel spot with a couple of 5′ umbrellas for a soft wall of fill…
…for a natural sunlight look…
But when Ramin arrived and we saw him dressed all in black, we decided to to crush the shadows and darken things for a more menacing overall appearance…
On the other side of the room we dropped a medium grey seamless…
Once again, a little more contrast and a bit less shadow detail helped a lot…
But the Black & White set the mood…
Here is the finished story in Variety…
Damn Ugly Photography 
U r soooo cool!!!!