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andromeda1023: In the current issue of Q Magazine you’ll find my portrait of Professor Brian Cox.This was such a satisfying shoot to do. I thrashed out the concept of Brian sat at a table looking at a space shuttle mid-launch with Russ, Q Magazines Picture Director the day before the shoot. The thought of doing this as a digital comp just felt naff to us so as ever I suggested and promised to pull of an idea that I had no real clue how best to achieve. (Russ is used to this…)All we were certain of was that we wanted this shot to all happen in camera. No digital trickery or retouching and apart from having to retouch out the Magic Arm that was holding the model shuttle aloft (the small room wouldn’t allow me to position it in such a way as to hide it) we achieved our objective.Everything was done in camera. I built and painted the model shuttle through the night and heart in mouth made the ‘take-off’ smoke cloud in the morning before the shoot drawing on my complete ignorance of basic electrical wiring and hoping my death trap of a setup didn’t electrocute Brian halfway through the shoot. When I switched on the smoke model for the first time I was so pleased and had high hopes it was going to be a good one.Anyway, after about 18 hours of solid work to build it we had the shot nailed in about ten minutes. Brian enjoyed it and for my part, in recent years this portrait is a personal highlight.(behind-the-scene photo © Russ O’Connell) Alex Lake/UK photographer:  http://www.twoshortdays.com/ (article)  http://www.twoshortdaysblog.com/post/47531501195/in-the-current-issue-of-q-magazine-youll-find-my
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andromeda1023:

In the current issue of Q Magazine you’ll find my portrait of Professor Brian Cox.

This was such a satisfying shoot to do. I thrashed out the concept of Brian sat at a table looking at a space shuttle mid-launch with Russ, Q Magazines Picture Director the day before the shoot. The thought of doing this as a digital comp just felt naff to us so as ever I suggested and promised to pull of an idea that I had no real clue how best to achieve. (Russ is used to this…)

All we were certain of was that we wanted this shot to all happen in camera. No digital trickery or retouching and apart from having to retouch out the Magic Arm that was holding the model shuttle aloft (the small room wouldn’t allow me to position it in such a way as to hide it) we achieved our objective.

Everything was done in camera.

I built and painted the model shuttle through the night and heart in mouth made the ‘take-off’ smoke cloud in the morning before the shoot drawing on my complete ignorance of basic electrical wiring and hoping my death trap of a setup didn’t electrocute Brian halfway through the shoot. When I switched on the smoke model for the first time I was so pleased and had high hopes it was going to be a good one.

Anyway, after about 18 hours of solid work to build it we had the shot nailed in about ten minutes. Brian enjoyed it and for my part, in recent years this portrait is a personal highlight.

(behind-the-scene photo © Russ O’Connell)

Alex Lake/UK photographer:  http://www.twoshortdays.com/

(article)  http://www.twoshortdaysblog.com/post/47531501195/in-the-current-issue-of-q-magazine-youll-find-my

awabubbles: The worst is that, in a way, the Doctor and Jack are trying to save the Earth and humanity in much the same but they’re not on the same playing field. The Doctor is, evolutionary speaking, much more advanced. Because of his people he’s already mastered time travel and so he’s innately brilliant and clever, and all those wonderful things. Jack, even though he’s from the 51st century, is only human. He can’t do the things the Doctor can, he can’t save people the same way, he can’t always come up with last minute clever solutions. Consequentially, Jack is forced to watch the things and people he love slip out of his hands from pure helplessness. CoE is the most blatant example of this. The Doctor would have found another way to save those children, but Jack didn’t, he couldn’t. There wasn’t time, he wasn’t clever enough, and reeling from the death of Ianto he was just desperate and broken enough to agree to it.  It’s probably the worst thing that could ever happen to a person really, feeling so compelled, even obligated, to save the world like the Doctor while only being human. 
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awabubbles:

The worst is that, in a way, the Doctor and Jack are trying to save the Earth and humanity in much the same but they’re not on the same playing field. The Doctor is, evolutionary speaking, much more advanced. Because of his people he’s already mastered time travel and so he’s innately brilliant and clever, and all those wonderful things.

Jack, even though he’s from the 51st century, is only human. He can’t do the things the Doctor can, he can’t save people the same way, he can’t always come up with last minute clever solutions. Consequentially, Jack is forced to watch the things and people he love slip out of his hands from pure helplessness.

CoE is the most blatant example of this. The Doctor would have found another way to save those children, but Jack didn’t, he couldn’t. There wasn’t time, he wasn’t clever enough, and reeling from the death of Ianto he was just desperate and broken enough to agree to it. 

It’s probably the worst thing that could ever happen to a person really, feeling so compelled, even obligated, to save the world like the Doctor while only being human. 

(Source: torchwoodian-confessions)

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