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The Art of Digital Burn
[Ganger in Hollywood classic pose]

I'm not entirely sure who first proposed the idea that we do the art of Digital Burn entirely in black and white photography, but it was one of the best and worst ideas we've ever had.

Why best? It gives Digital Burn a distinctive look and feel that we couldn't have gotten using traditional black and white line drawing. Why worst? Because of the sheer scale of the endeavor. Models, costumes, props, locations, lights, cameras, you name it, it was time-consuming and difficult to arrange. The decision to go traditional film or digital camera (we went digital), figuring out how to fit costumes, props, and lighting into the small budget we had available, scheduling around eighteen-plus models and four crew who all had their own lives, jobs, and schedules, photo shoots in three different cities, and fighting the losing battle of stockpiling enough batteries for the camera produced much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and heartfelt swearing never, ever, to do anything like this again. But we learned a lot and each subsequent shoot went better than the last. Usually because of what we, most times, discovered the hard way (for example, light-colored backgrounds are a Really Bad Idea if you don't have a hand-held light meter and are forced to rely on the meter within the camera).

Would we do it all over again? Hell, yeah.

Slideshows

A few photographs that didn't make it into the book -- for one reason or another.

Downloads

Wallpaper for your computer, and a small title animation.

Fanart

Art sent in by fans. And LRG staff members. :)