My contemporaneous remarks: "Brilliant photography in that Paul Harvey Dodge ad. That wins." https://twitter.com/coneslayer/status/298264624195829760
There was certainly nothing that came after it that changed my mind. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you watched the SuperBowl, I hope you saw the 2 minute RAM > commercial entitled "Farmers". I live in farm country, but even if I > didn't I would have been struck by the incredible still imagery. If > you haven't seen the ad, it is here: > http://www.petapixel.com/2013/02/06/a-closer-look-at-chryslers-god-made-a-farmer-super-bowl-commercial/ > along with links to a blog post giving some background by one of the > photographers used for the commercial. > > The ad is really just a slideshow over the audio of a speech that Paul > Harvey gave to a Future Farmers of America convention years ago. But > what imagery in a mix of Black & White and color! A subtle Ken Burns > effect is given to some of the images. The only image that appears to > have movement is the one of the horses legs as the sunlit dust cloud > to the left moves subtly, but even that may be a blending of still > images taken at x frames per second. A few of the images are a bit > garishly HDR for my taste, but no single image is on the screen for > very long. > > The Petapixel post and the links it contains may provide you some > diversion. Would be interested to know what others think of the ad and > it's imagery. > > I think it says something for the power of still imagery that this ad > garnered the attention and acclaim that it did. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
