FIELD NOTES FOLLOW-UP: BEHIND THE SCENES

Looking back on the 8-episode documentary series I made for the Luminous Landscape.
Over the last eighteen months Luminous Landscape has published a series of documentary shorts about some of North America’s most inspiring landscapes and the photographers that specialize in capturing them. We started with a profile of Charles Martin in the bayous of Louisiana, travelled on to Yosemite, California with Charlotte Gibb, then southern Utah with Jeremiah Barber, Ontario’s Georgian Bay with Sean Tamblyn, Florida’s fresh-water springs with Jennifer Adler, New York City with James Maher, Appalachia with Michele Sons and finished with Justin Kelly in Nevada. On the completion of the eighth piece, I thought it would be a good time to look back at these shoots, impart some of the film-craft that went into making them, and share some behind-the-scenes images. I’m going to present it step-by-step, in a manner that will reflect the process behind the pre-production, production and post-production st...