alan shapiro photography
Another day, another scream echoing long into the night to end in a low, strangled moan while crows harmonize with the howling wind...
I have the distinct pleasure of working with celebrities in my day job.
Some you all know.
Others you would never come across but in their respective areas of expertise, these people are world famous.
Kevin is that sort of celebrity.
Kevin can tell tell you the sounds that tens of thousand of spiders, large and small, will make as they attack an unsuspecting cheerleader or prom queen just come from the shower in an abandoned summer camp, her screams echoing through the remote valley as her boyfriend sleeps unaware.
He knows that doors with iron hinges creak and squeal much differently than those made of aluminum even if they both suspend the same dilapidated and worm-holed oak door.
He can share a vast collection of power tool sounds including an epic collection of chainsaws, both state-of-the-art and vintage.
And better still, he can demonstrate the sound said chainsaws make tearing through dilapidated doors, the roof of a car filled with college football stars screaming like my daughter and her friends did when they were 7, or even soft the sound a chainsaw makes tearing through flesh to hit bones (hmmmm, femur or scapula?)
And speaking of screaming, Kevin knows that the sound of a person screaming in a deep earthen hole is quite different than someone trapped in a basement or in the middle of a dark lake late a night while being repeatedly pulled under by unseen and malevolent forces.
Want a car slowly sliding down a precipice filled with people?
"What make of car? How many and how old are the folks trapped inside?" he will ask.
What sound does a large man wearing sneakers carrying a machete make as he creeps up an old stairwell?
"Does he want you to know he's coming for you? Because then, I might have the machete blade scream as it drags along the floorboard. And maybe we can make his breathing a bit labored...please?"
What sounds do a werewolf and a vampire make when enjoying a clandestine, passion fueled conjugal visit in a condemned mental institution?
"Hmmm, is she a screamer? Is this their first time together or has this relationship progressed to a more fantasy-fueled place? Let's see...let's see...what if they are interrupted by her drunken zombie ex-lover and his sociopathic friends?"
Oh yes, Kevin is a hoot and a half at Halloween. But he is even better in his sound studio working his otherworldly and truly terrifying magic.
So in exchange for this portrait, he has promised to create a thoughtful collection of sounds effects I can play to accompany and harmonize with my shutter clicks as interesting, unsuspecting people (along with my entourage of usual and suspecting suspects) come to visit.
Thank you, Kevin. Anything to make my shoots more memorable.
Google+: +Alan Shapiro
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Shapiro-Photography/136462319...
My blog: alanwshapiro.blogspot.com
Twitter: @alansphotos
www.alanshapiro.photoshelter.com
www.alanshapirophotography.tumblr.com
© 2011 Alan Shapiro
Another day, another scream echoing long into the night to end in a low, strangled moan while crows harmonize with the howling wind...
I have the distinct pleasure of working with celebrities in my day job.
Some you all know.
Others you would never come across but in their respective areas of expertise, these people are world famous.
Kevin is that sort of celebrity.
Kevin can tell tell you the sounds that tens of thousand of spiders, large and small, will make as they attack an unsuspecting cheerleader or prom queen just come from the shower in an abandoned summer camp, her screams echoing through the remote valley as her boyfriend sleeps unaware.
He knows that doors with iron hinges creak and squeal much differently than those made of aluminum even if they both suspend the same dilapidated and worm-holed oak door.
He can share a vast collection of power tool sounds including an epic collection of chainsaws, both state-of-the-art and vintage.
And better still, he can demonstrate the sound said chainsaws make tearing through dilapidated doors, the roof of a car filled with college football stars screaming like my daughter and her friends did when they were 7, or even soft the sound a chainsaw makes tearing through flesh to hit bones (hmmmm, femur or scapula?)
And speaking of screaming, Kevin knows that the sound of a person screaming in a deep earthen hole is quite different than someone trapped in a basement or in the middle of a dark lake late a night while being repeatedly pulled under by unseen and malevolent forces.
Want a car slowly sliding down a precipice filled with people?
"What make of car? How many and how old are the folks trapped inside?" he will ask.
What sound does a large man wearing sneakers carrying a machete make as he creeps up an old stairwell?
"Does he want you to know he's coming for you? Because then, I might have the machete blade scream as it drags along the floorboard. And maybe we can make his breathing a bit labored...please?"
What sounds do a werewolf and a vampire make when enjoying a clandestine, passion fueled conjugal visit in a condemned mental institution?
"Hmmm, is she a screamer? Is this their first time together or has this relationship progressed to a more fantasy-fueled place? Let's see...let's see...what if they are interrupted by her drunken zombie ex-lover and his sociopathic friends?"
Oh yes, Kevin is a hoot and a half at Halloween. But he is even better in his sound studio working his otherworldly and truly terrifying magic.
So in exchange for this portrait, he has promised to create a thoughtful collection of sounds effects I can play to accompany and harmonize with my shutter clicks as interesting, unsuspecting people (along with my entourage of usual and suspecting suspects) come to visit.
Thank you, Kevin. Anything to make my shoots more memorable.
Google+: +Alan Shapiro
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Shapiro-Photography/136462319...
My blog: alanwshapiro.blogspot.com
Twitter: @alansphotos
www.alanshapiro.photoshelter.com
www.alanshapirophotography.tumblr.com
© 2011 Alan Shapiro