Here’s a short 2-minute behind-the-scenes video showing how Getty’s Chief Entertainment Photographer Larry Busacca shot celebrity portraits at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Busacca had to shoot all the portraits in the same tiny, green-walled tent studio, so he had to get creative with posing to shoot unique portraits of the actors.
The speed at which Busacca had to operate was ridiculous. Tasked with shooting thousands of portraits over the course of five days, Busacca would typically have only 10 minutes with each cast (generally 6 or 7 people) for solo, group, and pairing portraits. The goal was to do it “fast enough and in a way that looks like it took an hour,” he says.
Here are some of the portraits that resulted:
Jack Black
Patrick Wilson
Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves and Lorenza Izzo
Ewan McGregor
Zachary Quinto
Saoirse Ronan
Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts
Emile Hirsch, Hailee Steinfeld, Ethan Hawke and Avan Jogia
Hugo Weaving
James Franco
Kevin Bacon
Anders Holm, Kris Swanberg, Cobie Smulders, Chris Webber and Gail Bean
Johnny Knoxville
Forest Whitaker and Chloe Zhao
James Marsden
You can find the entire set of 2,561 portraits over on Getty.
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.