These two shoots have something in common. One is a publicity shot for an actress named Marisa Costa who wanted to create an image that evoked a sort of noir, crime drama feel that might help her land a role on a television show such as CSI. The other is of Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the CSI franchise! He also was in need of publicity shots to promote his newest endeavor, a “gamified narrative” app called Mysteryopolis. The novel show is aimed at children and will allow them to change the outcome of the story as it moves along. Both images needed to be dramatic, but while Marisa’s needed to be dark, Zuiker’s needed to be a little warmer — so as not to scare the children — while still invoking the criminal brand he has built over the past 15 years. For Marisa we stuck to my home studio, 1320Main Studios in Venice, and kicked up the drama by casting light on the backdrop and shooting black & white. For Zuiker we went with natural light and found a place that gave us a softer version of the high contrast lighting that we needed to fit the look of the genre. I had a great time working with them both and think we achieved the looks we were going for.
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