I was sorry to read in the Globe and Mail of the recent passing of Oscar-award-winning Christopher Chapman. He was an acolyte of Eric Aldwinckle, and I met him and his wife Glen at his Uxbridge home about ten years ago when researching a book on Eric. Christopher was a brilliant innovator who mastered the technique of choreographing multiple moving images in one large movie frame. He won his Oscar with the short film at Expo ’67: “A Place To Stand“.
He was a gentleman.
A photo in this weekend’s Globe and Mail caught my eye: US First Lady Michelle Obama and French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy were standing at attention with their husbands in the foreground during the NATO summit in Strasbourg. My attention was fixed not on the content, but on the exposure of the photograph. Ms. Obama was dressed in a rather dark dress, and Ms. Sarkozy was in white. The extreme dynamic range of the scene required a decision: do we expose for the black woman, or the white woman? And in this case, the black woman took precedence, resulting in a totally washed-out Ms. Sarkozy.
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