Muscle nerds & camera geeks

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:59:32 +0200

In the late seventies I (Ron Nansink) was partner in Total Pictures a small inventive photo lab - press agency in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands. Daan Schmitt the founder of Total Pictures was an inventor and obsessed to combine photography and high-tech to explore new ways of photography. Together with Bart Reitsma and Ramon Peeman also partners in Total Pictures, we experimented to create the camera of the future. Remember in the late seventies, everything was analogue and mechanical, and above all, cameras and lenses were old fashioned solid and heavy. So long before the electric 17 grams, 2013 Drones, we experimented with Canons, Nikons and Minoltas in remote controlled, fuel driven mini helicopters, model planes and odd looking polystyrene flying saucers. We succeeded, got a lot of attention in the press and unexpected, also from the police, who were totally surprised by our inventive way of arial photography. The police nearly arrested us, for flying between their helicopters when we were bust shooting pictures of traditional sailing ships participating in Sail Amsterdam, with camera connected to a three meter wing width scale Cessna. However there was more, Total Picture was also the cradle for other forms of scientific photography, infrared, endoscopy, image intensifiers, high speed cameras, etc. etc. I worked on a reportages like 'Amsterdam by Night' for Panorama magazine, giving credits to those people who work when most of us are sleeping, the 'Amsterdam infrared light district' for a men's magazine showing the red-light district from a different color spectrum and 'Amsterdam through a fisheye,' swimming around the canals of Amsterdam, shooting photo’s from the water surface, with a super wide angle fisheye lens.

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Muscle nerds & camera geeks