Photoshoot Location Ideas - FG and Magneto Photo-Op with Mr. NewportCustom

[FedoraGent]

Loungers,

This Sunday, MrNewportCustom is going to take a photo or two of Magneto and me. For those of you that didn't see this:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=24804&page=3

So now I'm presented with a quandary. I'm a new kid around here and as such I am looking for Los Angeles Loungers to put their collective noggins together and help me figure out where we are going to have our photo taken. Some ideas that have already made the table are:

1. Gamble House in Pasadena
2. Biltmore Hotel in Downtown LA
3. Suicide Bridge (San Rafael Bridge) Pasadena...but I think that this one has been done to death. Definitely pun intended.
4. Pasadena City Hall in all it's wonderful Deco goodness.
5. QM...but I think we have enough of those blinkin' pics.

We are shooting our pics at 1pm on Sunday. Any ideas (especially from Neecerie and Lady Day) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Cheers,

FG.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

My only other ideas besides the already mentioned...would be

The Huntington Library and gardens..
The grounds of CalTech...

 

[FedoraGent]

What about...

My only other ideas besides the already mentioned...would be

The Huntington Library and gardens..
The grounds of CalTech...

Any ideas outside the boundaries of Pasadena?

FG.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

not really...you forget..I am basically a San Gabriel Valley girl....

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

How about the Griffith Park Observatory?

 

[FedoraGent]

How about the Griffith Park Observatory?

I've never been up there, is it nice?

FG.

 

[John in Covina]

I've never been up there, is it nice?FG.

Griffith Park Obsetvatory, Rob works there now!
Stunning Design, the exteriors were used as the Kryptonian home of Jor-el Superman's father in the black & White TV series. There is a fountain off I think Los Feliz near the way up to the GPO that makes a great backround. Train town in Griffith park has steam locomotives for backround.

Don't forget the LA train staion it has a classic interior.

The Egyptian in HW?

 

[Mr. Lucky]

Like John said, Union Station. The Formosa Cafe. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Pantry, downtown. The Mulhollond overlook - the Hollywood bowl is below and the Hollywood sign in the background. The Bradbury building (as seen in Blade Runner). Just to name a few...

 

[DavidVillaJr]

How about Grauman's?

It's been a thousand years since I've been down south, don't know what's too touristy anymore.....

dv

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Good idea asking for . . . um . . . ideas, FG. I like the thought of Griffith Observatory! I haven't been there in years! (Ultimately, though, it's your choice.) But, folks, please remember that, as much as I'd love to shoot inside the Bradbury Building, my offer is for outdoor shots only. I've haven't the strobe equipment to shoot indoors.

Thank you and keep the ideas coming!


Lee

 

[dostacos]

I think you might be able to shoot inside the lobby of Union Station Fedora Gent will be checking it out Saturday so....

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Hmmmm . . .

There are possibilities here. The windows of Union Station are quite large and the majority of them are south-facing, so that could make it work, at least in B&W. My main concern for indoor shooting would be with color film, as any artificial light source could tint the pictures, or parts thereof, away from pure daylight, if strong enough. But I think the altitude of the lamps inside and the brightness of the sunlight through the windows could make it possible.

FG. Have you a third person to hold a reflector?


Lee
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If you turn off an artificial light source, do you get artificial dark?

 

[RondoHatton]

Noirish rains this morning.
Suggest:
(If open)
On the south side of Hollywood Blvd., just west of Western Ave., there is an (arched? been a few months) entrance to the lobby of an old office bldg. Inside, it has that "smell", that unearthly, not unpleasant, aura of age - wood, oil, polish, marble? Not a photographable quality, yes, but the visual inside was just as vintage L.A. to me. Not bad natural light inside - skylights, windows. Yes, that is a DMV office on the corner just east. Check out the gargoyles at the roofline, though. Bukowski used to live around the corner where a condo now stands.
Portions of the Geffen or whatever it's called now building on the west side of Vine St. north of Fountain Ave. are still art deco-moderne.
Aline Barnsdall house (FLLW) atop Barnsdall hill park, Hollywood Blvd east of Vermont Ave. Also there Junior Art Center building is "Modernist".
The Pony Rides in Griffith Park - almost the same for 50 years. Travel Town train yard further west.
Who else voted for Rondo besides himself? Two is better than one! - Thanks!

 

[Miss Neecerie]

I guess I was thinking of -nice- locations for an engagement portrait...as opposed to the grittier side of things..thinking the emphasis is on the people..and less completely on where they are....

silly me

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

The Oviatt http://www.oviatt.com/

Culver City also has a ton of Art Deco buildings.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

The Culver Studios

It's entrance was designed to look like George Washington's Mount Vernon and it dates back to the 1918.

 

[John in Covina]

Where the heck is that Coca Cola Building that was built with the design of being an Art Deco Steamship.

 

[John in Covina]

THe Casino on Catalina Island is a nice backdrop too.

In Pasadena and SOuth Pasadena there are a fair number of California Craftsman Bungalows that the historical society lists, you might try that.

Wrigley Mansion on Orange Grove maybe.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Where the heck is that Coca Cola Building that was built with the design of being an Art Deco Steamship.

http://www.homeandabroad.com/viewSiteDetails.ha?mainInfoId=27379

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Where the heck is that Coca Cola Building that was built with the design of being an Art Deco Steamship.

I applied there once! It's in downtown Los Angeles, at 1334 S. Central Ave.

While looking for a picture of it, I found this site. Scroll down half way to see it. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image. (The Donut Hole - three pictures above it - is about a mile from my house. ) Lots of good location ideas here!


Lee