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2012 Vision

ksprague — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:38:28 +0000

A new year brings a new season at Shakespeare & Company. This year the mix of images span the gamut from film noir to Shakespeare. What I love about this client relationship is that we’ve all worked together for so long that success is an assumption – we all know that our collaboration will bear great fruit. And it is a collaboration, between Marketing Director Elizabeth Aspenlieder, the actors involved in the shoots, Govane Lohbauer and the costume department, and the artistic leadership coming down from Tony Simotes.

Trust in vision, trust in process, and trust in inspiration – trust builds great opportunity and a better product. It also makes the process quick, efficient and cost-effective. The mean timeline on these individual shoots, from concept development to execution and delivery takes just a couple of hours, tops. We know what we are doing.

Shoot at the Studio

ksprague — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:09:23 +0000

Here’s a little compilation video of a recent shoot for knitting-phenom Catherine Lowe at the Studio:

Tub Parade in Lenox 2009

ksprague — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:59:20 +0000

A bunch of photos from the Tub Parade in Lenox on 9/12/09 by Kevin
Sprague. Lovely turnout, and fun to see the vintage fire equipment
from Lenox Fire Dept. celebrating their 100th anniversary this year.

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Undermountain valley September 2009

ksprague — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:10:25 +0000

Time-lapse HD video of the morning fog. Waiting by the camera as the clouds move through. So many things to do but how can you skip this? I’ll post the video when I get it done. And yes, I might be thinking about that beautiful television spot for Mexico that Gina sent around last week….

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Theater Review – ‘Twelfth Night’ – Shakespeare and Company Turns Elizabethan Self-Discovery Into Child’s Play

ksprague — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:38:48 +0000

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Elizabeth Raetz as Olivia, and Ryan Winkles as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in “Twelfth Night.”

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Fine fools: Ryan Winkles, left, as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Nigel Gore as Sir Toby Belch.

Great review of Twefth Night in the New York Times with some nice photos running. I haven’t seen the print version of this but I hear it looks good. Elizabeth Aspenlieder knocked it out of the ballpark this August with big, colorful stories in NYT and Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe, in some cases multiple times. I always tell people that marketing lets the audience know that they can buy tickets, but PR actually sells out houses. This production is also testament to having faith in your home-grown talent, as Jonathan Croy certainly is, having mounted more productions of Shakespeare through the Fall Festival than any other person alive except Kevin Coleman. Govane Lohbauer’s fabulous costumes, done on a shoestring, should shame any better budgeted production into obscurity. These talented folks live here, work here, and teach here. We should honor them.

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Photographing the Nude at IS183.org

ksprague — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:02:29 +0000

PHOTOGRAPHING THE NUDE
I’m giving a class at is183 in September: visit www.is183.org for
details (or read below)
Kevin Sprague
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sep 26 – Sep 27 (2 sessions)

Tuition: $135.00 plus $65 model’s /equipment fee

The focus of this class is the creation of beautiful, elegant and
balanced exposures of the human form. We will discuss interaction with
the models and the relationship between photographer and subject. We
will not be creating explicit images. A working knowledge of digital
SLRS and some familiarity with Photoshop is beneficial but not
required. Cameras and lighting equipment will be provided.
Participants will be able to take their own exposures home on CD or
DVD. Participants are free to bring their own cameras and lenses, but
should expect to work with provided lights and environment.

phone (413) 298-5252
info@is183.org

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“Summer” by Edith Wharton – A film project.

ksprague — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:38:22 +0000

My brother Carl has adapted Edith Wharton’s novel “Summer” into a screenplay and we are playing around with shooting trailers to demonstrate the locations, talent, and story for potential investors. I’ve set up a small site for the production here. It’s been a lot of fun playing cinematographer the last two weekends with the lovely and talented Ardis Barrow and good-looking Tom Frelinghuysen as well as a star turn with Chief Wilcox of Stockbridge playing Royall. Here’s some production stills.

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Fuzzy Edges

ksprague — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:32:48 +0000

I have a collection of interesting and slightly exotic lenses on my camera shelf here, including a tilt/shift Nikon lens, a tilt/shift nikon knock-off I got from KievCamera.net and a couple of lensbaby variants. The lensbaby, for those who don’t know, is a simple lens connected by a flexible tube to the camera, and you focus it by moving it around with your fingers. All of these lenses share one common aspect: they make blurry images, or rather, they tend to handle focus in odd ways. I’ve marveled over the years at how this strange effect of focus has an impact on the content and emotion of the photos that you take with the lenses. Our brains are wired in strange ways, as relates to sight. The same image, sharp edge to edge will pale in comparison, emotionally, to one that has focus fall-off. Why is this? My theory is that our visual center is interested in “what is of interest” for the matter of our survival. When you really focus on someone in a conversation, your peripheral vision fades and even noises drop down. You are “focused” on that person. I think that the effect of the lensbaby and other such devices, including the very short depth of field created by view cameras, has the same physiological effect of “focusing” our attention. In any case, here are some photos from the recent BIFF (Berkshire international film festival) that I shot with the lensbaby that I like.

In Progress

ksprague — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:42:45 +0000

Work in progress for Tennessee Shakespeare Company. More to come on this one.

Photos up at Ferrin Gallery

ksprague — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:27:30 +0000

My photos are on display at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield through the month of March as part of the Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts. The show is entitled WOMEN: Portait+ Figure and is really great. I encourage you to go see it. Of interest also is that Leslie Ferrin chose to forgo the usual artists credits on the walls and instead has simply numbered the works, which allows the viewer to guess who the artist is and what their gender is. It’s a nice twist.

I have six nude studies up that I shot for the show. It was an opportunity for me to delve into the subtle world of the human form and the form and shape of it. Thanks to the participation of my talented model, the results fulfilled my desire to create a small collection of classic images. Life is a learning process.

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