Today is a milestone of sorts for the production of WINGS 2. I made the first of what will be many trips to the Catalina Island Museum to get high resolution photos from their great collection, including this one of a Catalina Air Lines Goose at LGB(?).
I normally use a mixture of scanned photographs and actual copy-stand photographs in my films, but prefer the copy-stand photographs. In most cases, scanned photographs have too much of a "flat" or "Xeroxed" look to me, whereas directly taking a photograph of a photograph (with a high resolution camera) brings out the sepias and the dimensions a little better.
Over the next three or four months I will be visiting Jeannine, Gail and Christina at the Museum Research Center on Metropole Avenue about once a week to tap into their great collection. (Stacey Otte, the long time Executive Director is leaving in a few days for a new job with a museum in the Santa Barbara area).
In tomorrow's post, I'll talk about a great little discovery Jeannine and I made at the Museum today.
