vtography.com blog » rankin http://www.vtography.com/blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:18:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Photographer: Rankin http://www.vtography.com/blog/2009/12/18/rankin-live/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rankin-live http://www.vtography.com/blog/2009/12/18/rankin-live/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:33:11 +0000 vtography http://www.vtography.com/blog/?p=841 Rankin (wiki), celebrity photographer extraordinaire, embarked on a very ambitious project earlier this year. Having photographed the likes of Lindsay Lohan, David Bowie, Hugh Grant, Britney Spears, and other mega-celebs, he opened up his photography services to the British public. A paltry fee of £50 would get you fifteen minutes with Rankin and a print of your final photo, with all the profits going to Oxfam.

There’s a site, of course, and you can find some of my favourites from these sessions below:


Back in 2005, I embarked on a project where I tried to photograph 100 people in two months. It didn’t work out, but I ended up with one slightly Rankin-esque image from those sessions, well before I even knew who he was. Overexposure and desaturation are the keys here, but there’s still far too much colour in the skin compared to Rankin’s shots. I shot this with one hotshoe flash in an umbrella, directly in front of the subject, about six inches above my camera and angled downwards:

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