{"id":352,"date":"2015-07-02T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/customer.magnanimousmedia.net\/resources\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2020-04-11T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:12:32","slug":"garrett-harper-mini-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/garrett-harper-mini-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Harper Mini-Doc and Behind-the-Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VfgLxXbP36E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TRANSCRIPTION<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em>My name is Garrett Harper and I\u2019m a Chicago-born tattoo artist. I specialize in black and gray realism, and I focus on images that are elegant, dark, and moody, and, at the same time, mysterious.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em>For me, I have been drawing my whole life. I started off drawing comic books, drawing anything I could see. And quickly I became bored with it. It just wasn\u2019t as, like, fulfilling for me. And being an artist, you know, you take a lot of time to draw a really nice, realistic image. And I didn\u2019t feel like I had that amount of appreciation from the people I was showing my art to. So tattooing, in a selfish way, kind of felt like something I could do that people would appreciate a lot more.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em>If you\u2019re going to become a tattoo artist, you should really do some soul-searching. You gotta think about the kind of life you want to live. You have to really analyze what you think you\u2019re going to do as a tattoo artist. Because in most cases, what you think is going to happen and what actually happens is very different. You think it\u2019s going to be this rockstar lifestyle and you\u2019ll make a lot of money, and at the end of the day, that\u2019s not the case.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em>It\u2019s a difficult job. There\u2019s a lot of pressure to maintain a high level of quality consistently throughout your career. It\u2019s very easy to slack off. You\u2019re working seven days a week. And people don\u2019t realize that\u2014when you\u2019re a tattoo artist, it\u2019s not just what\u2019s on the skin. There\u2019s a lot of preparation work, there\u2019s a lot of research that goes into each piece. It can be very work-intensive.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em>Tattooing as an art form is so unique in that it\u2019s permanent. The level of difficulty, the precise nature of it, has always been kind of exciting for me. I like to be challenged. And the idea that if I\u2019m doing something with someone\u2019s skin, and this person\u2019s going to wear it for the rest of their lives&#8211;that level of intensity is something that\u2019s driven me to really progress and try to be the best tattoo artist that I can. To find something that you love is definitely something that you can just be thankful for. And for me, just the lifestyle\u2014the ability to go to work and really enjoy work and get lost in my work\u2014is something that you can\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Learn all about the production and details of this mini-doc with Corey Lillard in our behind-the-scenes video!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNfyazqNzjI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">TRANSCRIPTION<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Hi, my name is Corey Lillard. I\u2019m with Magnanimous Media. Recently, I shot a mini-doc using the C500 with the Leica Summicrons. There were a few questions about how I did certain sequences in the documentary, so I\u2019m here to address those.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">So, when it came to shooting the Garrett Harper mini-doc, I basically used three of the Summicron lenses. I stuck around with the 50, the 75, and the 18. Just helped me cover the entire lens I needed all day. These lenses are not only sharp, but they\u2019re also creamy. They render beautiful skin tones. And for a documentary about a tattoo artist, where I\u2019m shooting a lot of skin, they\u2019re the perfect choice.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">So, with the C500, I shot directly into the Odyssey 7Q. This allowed me to shoot 4K RAW. Now, this does create huge files, and it\u2019s a lot of post work, but when you see that final image, it certainly is worth the time.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">There were quite a few questions of how I lit the last portion of the mini-doc. This is a moment when I dollied in, and a light rose up on a subject as we got closer. This was also shot in 60 frames per second.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">This is a light by a company by the name of Aadyntech. This is called the Eco Punch Plus. This is a great light because it comes with a controller that you can dim\u2014you can do many effects, such as lightning, strobes, all of this light. So it\u2019s a great light to have on set. And it\u2019s also very powerful. I think this is equivalent to a 3,000-watt.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">So, with the Aadyntech, I created what\u2019s called a book light, in which you take a larger light, you throw it into something reflective, and then the reflection of that, you soften it, going through a 4&#215;4 silk or some sort of grid. So it creates this really intense-yet-soft, also directional light, which is perfect to work with in a black studio, where I don\u2019t want light flashing all around and bouncing off of objects. Still really controlled, yet really soft.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019d like to thank you for taking the time to watch our video. If you haven\u2019t seen the Garrett Harper Mini-Doc, it will be linked down below. Everything I used to shoot the documentary is available at Magnanimous\u2014it was a Magnanimous shoot. So feel free to reach out to us with any questions, concerns, and we\u2019ll get to them as soon as we can. Thank you for your time.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Chicago tattoo artist Garrett Harper, who talks about his craft, career, and advice as part of our mini-doc series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-production","category-rentals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magnanimousrentals.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}