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Stock Interviews John Lund Photographer Marc Romanelli

Marc Romanelli was shot successfully in stock for over twenty years. It is based on Santa Fe, New Mexico where he lives with his wife and daughter. Mark images are managed by Getty for stills and motion, Corbis (motion), Corbis (movement) and Workbookstock, Hola, Blend, Bluemoon and Alamy for stills.

Jean Marc, I know you have opened fire in storage after long … and you do not pull current assignments. Can you provide in your early career, how you came to be a shooter actions?

I started painting, drawing and sculpture as a kid and only picked up a camera to 17 years. I started by shooting objects found … crushed cans, tree bark, rusted metal … the world has been revealed to me through the lens of a 55mm Micro Nikkor. Seeing that everything was almost a revelation to me, to be followed by wide angle lenses that distort reality another wonderful way.

I started my wallet Shopping around Manhattan and possibly harassed Life Magazine giving me some missions. Do you have a cover of Modern Photography at 23, then signed with the image of the Bank 24. Very soon realized that freedom with the available stock has been the way for me to leave. I traveled a lot with very low budgets, kept overhead very low, then at home, and plowed profits back into shooting trip.

About 20 years ago chose to concentrate on shooting people, become familiar with to lead people in recreational sports shoots have (then) recently moved to the mountains to the west … Santa Fe. This eventually turned into a shooting lifestyle and everything that I liked, including fine arts stuff.

John: To license your own stock, license only through agencies, or do both? What organizations manage your work?

I do not allow my own, I'm rather represented by Getty for still images and motion, Corbis (motion), Corbis (movement), and Workbookstock, Hola, Blend, Bluemoon and Alamy for stills.

John: RF Micro or RM?

I am of RM and RF. I have not shot the microphone and will probably not be in the future.

John: You pull motion and still images. How long have you been shooting the film and how did you happen to enter this arena?

I first started shooting motion in 1997. I call it the "second wave" of Image Bank guys who got their feet movement fire damp. I sensed that I would take the course. I owned a Arri 16s, an Arri BL2 3mm, and currently a camcorder Panasonic HVX200 (for sale cheap).

John: Do you find that you need a different set of skills for shooting motion?

Different set of skills and … absolutely with the motion, you must create an arc in time, perhaps 20-30 seconds and tell a story. You are responsible for moving the camera and / or subjects through time and space and not relying a decisive movement which crystallizes into a single image.

John: What is the role of movement in your future plans?

The movement is an integral part of my business imaging, and some increasingly important. Rush Tech still forcing shooters to recognize that hybrid camera capable of shooting stills and 1080p motion files are here to stay. The world sees the movement as the most natural, emotional and effective way to communicate.

John: How do you address a meeting of stock? It is ie ideas, plans, casting, etc.

Concentrate on what you do best seems to work (in an increasingly volatile). A key I'm trying to tap into the question "do you feel real, authentic"? Easier said than done.

Particularly Now, as the visual paradigm has a deep change of the excess, expansion, and self-centered focus … reality, community of shared responsibility, and contraction. I work very intuitively … I threw some friends and people I meet that I have a sense about, I rarely work with models.

I do not shoot in a studio. My preference is to find real places. This can pose challenges, but I prefer the authentic atmosphere of a workplace.

John: Are Are you involved with the world of fine arts?

I dipped into the world of fine arts, after having a one-man show of my personal work in black and white contained in Santa Fe and a group show too.

John: What do you find most satisfying about your work?

I enjoy photographing my 3-year-old daughter. It keeps my photo chops razor sharp, and my intuition photo on alert … trying to capture mercury visually!

John: Anything else you want to share?

I think my decision to make a film stock is determined by comparing the talent in place while keeping an eye on how I could differentiate my image of what exists.

I tend towards what I call "situational" shoots, fashion shoots of life which are based on reality, and subscribe to the notion that end users of my images are looking mainly for uplifting, inspirational positive images. In fact, sometimes the most positive thing coming out of a branch is the relationship, interaction and communication with the talent whether they are friends or acquaintances. It is as if there is a sort of "charged positive residue" that was created by the action of the picture goes. Usually, if not the experience I know I did a good job of capturing something.

The industry is moving. That You see, as is currently the biggest challenges for you as a shooter action? How will you cope with these challenges?

Our business is evolving at warp speed and the engine in the digital revolution, democratization mass also called "crowd sourcing, availability cameras now affordable and exceptional digital and new portals and sales platforms for the creation of a surplus, an overabundance of images hunting buyers less. This is especially true now considering our fragile economy.

What to do? I choose to take what I know, shoot what feels right, with the diversification of shooting motion and Stills, find new agencies wanting to build their collections soon as the workbook Indeed, loading them with pictures but without forgetting the girl "who brought you to the dance" in the first place … would be your bread and butter of the agency. In my case, this agency is Getty.

John: Marc, thank you for sharing that with us!

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