While we were in Los Angeles Peggi’s sister took us for a ride throughout the hills of Bel Air. She had the top down and it was a gorgeous day with a pure blue sky. I took this photo of a hummingbird in her backyard before we left. I made a movie of the ride but it was so full glare and sun streaks that I dumped it. In fact I can be heard complaining about the light in the movie. Such a problem! Too much light.
When we got back we downloaded the Getty app for the Pacific Standard Time exhibit. Their “In Focus: Los Angeles” photography show doesn’t open for a few more weeks but there is a video included in the app where Judy Fisken talks about how she thought Los Angeles was ugly when she was growing up but through making photos she found beauty in the photos where she was shooting into the sun. The sky would go white and the subject, houses or buildings, would be evenly lit and then she would doge the street so it too would white.
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When Thomas Edison invented the movie camera, he tried to set up the film production industry in the east.
But what moved it out to Hollywood was all that sun. Filmstock ASA speed was really slow then. The needed all that light.