Portraits by Paolo Pellegrin
Brilliant set of work with some of Hollywood’s A-listers by Paolo Pellegrin. NY Times link here. Few things of note.
Use of very hard light, just off camera. Likely nothing more than a Speedlight, but getting it off direct camera access makes it so much more palatable. You’ll also get the sense he’s using predominantly one portable source for many of these on set snaps. So well done.
Second note, Paolo seems to love breaking - no, crushing - the ‘rule of thirds’. You’ll find a lot of faces placed dead center of the photo - and it works. Probably not a great rule to promote breaking, but the shots are so well composed that they do work, and it creates wonderful and interesting tension in number of the picts.
Third note, Paolo seems to love to shoot through stuff. Mostly car windshields. Brilliantly done and it adds a great layer of light, color and effects. Great stuff.
