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Monday, May 30, 2005

I'm listening to

Abba. This embarasses me. Why? I'm not ashamed when I listen to Rammstein and Elvis Costello. Is it because their (Abba's) accent sounds a little funny? Is it because you can't write ABBA? You have to turn the second B around? They're clearly skilled at what they apparently used to do. Explain this to me!

I've been doing nighttime photography gigs out here in the oh so fabulous Hamptons. This is going to be a week of shooting the movie but I'm really too tired to do it today. Instead I found some lovely little trees in a field which I intend on "liberating". My allergies are not as bad as they used to me so it just opens the whole world of tree liberation to me.

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Cover Art


cover
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
It took a while but I finally submitted Griffith Gaunt to its first festival (Hamptons) as a rough cut. The sound needs work but the movie's looking good.

Greg Neville


greg
Originally uploaded by tanalee.

duel


duel
Originally uploaded by tanalee.

ls


ls
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
This is a wide angle shot of the duel in Griffith Gaunt

stian


stian
Originally uploaded by tanalee.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

spent the whole

day try to get my old laptop to recognize the camcorders. I wanted to have a way to see what the cameras were seeing when we were out shooting. It's impractical to keep running back to the view finder and it's too small.

Friday, May 20, 2005

playboy


playboy
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
I'm playing a character who was a teen idol in the 80s. In a desperate bid for success as an adult Galilea (the former Lilea K.) did a spread in playboy. It was my pleasure today to shoot the "headshot" that will be going on Tiffany's body. She did a playboy shoot in 2002.

Do I look like a drag queen? This makeup feels yucky.

Thursday, May 19, 2005

darkest


darkest
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
Another flash test. Poor Monstie! He always seems so sad.

russellsea


russellsea
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
I've been testing my flash like crazy. I hope I didn't terrorize Russell Seacow with it.

Nude Fairy

I get what I deserve. I was so tired of reading all the posts requesting nude women for free on craigslist. Not only that but they want the nude woman to host the posing session. I posted:

I'm a young woman who wants to pose nude. I'm 5'10", 120 lbs. I'm an exhibitionist and I would like to do this at my place. Attach a picture so I know you're not psycho. I'm the Nude Fairy.

I was trying to suggest that I'm the nude fairy because this is something that would occur in the land of fairy tales. Now if other people saw this as an unreasonable request, would they ask for it all the time? I guess not.

So the email avalanche began. "I'm an amazing photographer. If you're willing . . ." These were the politest emails I ever received. I even started to feel bad for these guys. Some wanted to IM. One real painter wanted to know what I charge. A week later and I'm still getting desperate emails. "You sound great! Please email me back!"

I've never gotten so much politeness and consideration from people on craigslist. Some other person put up a copy cat post calling him/herself "Your Goddess".

Some of them had the vaguest sense that the post wasn't real. I got some "If you're serious you'll send me a picture" emails. Like I have something to prove to them.

They all wanted pictures of the Nude Fairy. It got really old, really fast.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Russell Seacow (see below)

did nothing yesterday. He just sat there like a blob with his belly a little puffed out. This worried me. If you look in the archives you'll see that I once loved a fish above all other fish and his name was Little Stevie Wonder. He was a Panda Puffer and it looked like he had sunglasses on. I lost him due to complications involving ich or protozoas or something.

I used to reach in the tank and tickle his belly. When Little Stevie Wonder would just sit there like a blob I would pet him and try to get him to move. He did this for like ever. Anyway, Russell Seacow was doing this yesterday but I restrained myself. I'm trying to keep my hands off Russell Seacow. Every fish I've ever touched didn't make it. It may be superstition at this point.

Today

We'll be shooting the scene where Galilea's abusive tendencies get out of control. We half shot this already but the sun started going down. I try to use natural light as much as possible. The footage always seems to look better.

Monday, May 16, 2005

duckies


duckies
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
The duckies came and they went for a test swim in the tub. They are supporting talent in The Narcissist.

Russell Seacow


seacow
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
I finally dipped my toe in the water and I'm now the owner of a new puffer. May he live long in my tank!

Sunday, May 15, 2005

This photo gives me


till
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
"That Rammstein feeling".

I've been totally slacking on the blog

I have a dream. My dream is that the lead singer of Rammstein, Till Lindemann, will play the Till Lindemann role in The Narcissist. I don't think this is going to happen and that idea distresses me. I just want that Rammstein feeling in The Narcissist! Till, if you're out there

A: The flame suit. This is so cool. You are what Richard Wagner could have only hoped to be.
B: Pretending the sodomize the keyboardist and pretending to ejaculate all over the audience somehow works when you do it. I can't explain it.
C: East Germans! Ja!

Call out to Till: Now officially over.

Anyway, Griffith Gaunt, is going to get sent to the Hamptons Film Festival really soon. And I'm distressed about that. The sound is not that good. It needs to be improved. The deadline is fast approaching. I have to send the tape explaining that a rough cut will be enclosed. What can one do?

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Rubber Ducky


arsatoys_1840_1566338
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
I've been sniffing the scent of vinyl these days. The rubber duckies have taken hold of my imagination. Much as the Hummels did, then Rammstein.

I've learned a great deal about our little special yellow friends.

A. There's a popular 'vibrating bath toy' in the shape of a rubber ducky. The vibrating ducky was so successful that a Wormie was launched. This long green worm has a ribbed bottom. How else would he get around?

B. Many rubber duckies don't float right. They're heads are heavy so they fall over.

C. There's a subculture of women obsessed with their duckies.

D. Some duckies glow and light up. I think some duckies look evil. But not the ones sold as "devil duckies". I'll make my own devil duckies, damn you.

E. Some guy on ebay came up with this total BS story that a rubber ducky made his kid's toys melt. He acted like the ducky was possessed. He was so scared of its power that they only thing his Pastor and he could decided to do: was sell it on ebay.

That's the responsible thing to do. Such crap! The ebay guy thought he was this great novelist. It just kills me that he got a hundred bucks whereas naked yoda only got sixty-three. Where's the justice in this cold, so cold world?!!!!!

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

I'm thinking of making this painting

the logo for an Imperatrice Production website. What do you think?

Sunday, May 08, 2005

traeger


traeger
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
These are my new Bavarian suspenders. I wanted to share them with you.

Thursday, May 05, 2005

I spent the day

shooting with Skroda. From the picture you can see that he doesn't have the best temperament. Nothing's good enough for him and he kept baiting me. I ended up telling him: "Look, this is your deal and you can take it with you."



Well, at least he left.

Well

Hello. Just wanted to check in. Shooting on the Narcissist continues. I've got some rubber duckies coming in the mail. They glow in the dark so you'll know that they'll be evil. I've got two challenges on my mind: I must shoot a "where are they now" type segment. And Zack enters his own psyche and encounters a naked yoda creature named Skroda.

I got a prop from Ikea, a wooden lazy susan. That's a start. I got my Skroda. The rubber duckies and water will be involved. This is probably going to take a few days.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Galilea is


galileathanks
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
accepting her Oscar or thanking her followers or whatever. Narcissism reigns supreme here.

Monday, May 02, 2005

This is the story

of the Tanster at the crossroads. I really like film but it's too time consuming. I have a nice medium format camera (Hasselblad 503cx) that I barely ever use. Over the last few months I've acquired a lot of inexpensive pentax lenses on ebay. They have exceptional optics. I was wondering if I could put them on the hasselblad. This entails putting small lenses in front of a big negative. Would the lens project an image that filled the negative plane? Would the quality be very good? I spent a lot of time thinking about these questions . . .

I found someone on the internet who made such an adapter with a body cap for some other medium format camera. Can't remember which one. Then I started talking to Ukrainians. I see them as the portal to the shady adapter world. Was I right! I had two horrible deals on ebay where Ukrainian people sold me adapters for the Kiev 88 calling the Kiev 88 a Hasselblad. Though the Kiev 88 looks like a Hasselblad it has a totally different mount. I wasted a lot of money and time learning that lesson. I almost gave up again. (If you look at the archives there's more about the pursuit of this adapter)

Finally, I shelled out ten more dollars to buy a real Hasselblad body cap. When it came I got to work. The pictures below reveal what the job looked like.

The results: I tried lenses from 16mm to 200mm (small format M42)

16mm: wouldn't focus at all.

28mm: extreme close up

35mm: extreme close up

55mm: close up

135mm: normal but I believe a tripod is needed

200mm: normal but I believe a tripod is needed

For the range of the 135mm and the 200mm I'd just use the Hasselblad 80mm anyway.

My negatives were covered with the entire image from outside the lens.

So I learned a few things. I think the hasselblad really needs a tripod and cable release whenever I use it. The great thing about that camera is its sharpness and I lose that everytime I go hand held. It's not worth it.

fincap


fincap
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
This hasselblad body cap is the beginning of the project.

finmount


finmount
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
This is the pentax mount that I pried off a dead spotmatic from about 1970. Those things are hard to destroy! It took a hammer with all the strength of my puny arms.

finvice


finvice
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
I was worried about how to put the initial hole in the body cap. The plastic was pretty hard so I was afraid that a jigsaw would crack it. I don't really have that many tools. I went with a drill. It went through the plastic pretty well and it gave me this crude hole.

finfiled


finfiled
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
Here's the hasselblad body cap. It's filed so the pentax M42 mount can be glued on top.

finadap


finadap
Originally uploaded by tanalee.
This is the adapter completed. The Pentax mount is epoxied to the hasselblad cap. It's covered with gluegun glue for additional support.

 
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