Comments on: [BTS] Annie Leibovitz Shoots Meryl Streep

By: Shannon Wimberly

Shannon Wimberly — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:22:00 +0000

you missed the point… they are equal to me and even more…. im just sick of hearing about it….. sure things are unfair to women in a lot of respects, but I am so sick of debate and clamoring of people, men or women, for their “rights”…. life hasn’t been so easy for me either… but I’m not going to stand around and bitch about it or make a cause over it….. history is history…. I am not going to apologize for it…. women are plenty free to make their marks on history in this country…. i don’t make the rules…. call me what you want…. just sick of the debate or any debate for that matter…. political correctness has ruined this nation…..

By: Shannon Murray

Shannon Murray — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:23:00 +0000

Can we please limit this discussion to photography, spousing ill informed views on gender equality simply makes the good readers of Fstoppers look (quite justifiably in my opinion) like male chauvinist pigs.

If you really believe women are treated equally in this world, then think about why 170 women and girls were poisoned last week in Afghanistan just because they were attending school, and why thousands of women around the world each year are subjects of acid attacks and millions are subjected to genital mutilation.

But back to my first point: if Meryl Streep wants to support the building of a Museum for left handed red-head jugglers, and Annie Leibovitz wants to photograph her – good on them. If we can learn something related to photography from them, I am all for discussing that, but can we leave non-photograhy discussions like the above for the comments section in the Huffington Post.

Shannon Murray

By: Simon Lynch

Simon Lynch — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:26:00 +0000

that’s not something you can easily take away from a 2 min bts video… ;)

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:50:00 +0000

What’s with all the clips that I keep seeing her using around the octas?

By: James Darden

James Darden — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:53:00 +0000

The first part was uncalled for but I agree pretty much with the last. I’ve always maintained that a woman could pick a guy up in a post office, gas station or a food court. Not so the other way around. They set the bar higher for themselves. It reminds me of a comedy bit Sinbad used to talk about. A man will try to pick up a girl working the fryer at a fast food place. A woman is going to go for the guy who owns the fast food place.

By: James Darden

James Darden — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:44:00 +0000

Nice story but not too BTS-like. I would have liked to have heard more from Annie about why she decided to go down the route she chose for this shoot. Location, equipment etc. I know she uses mostly Softlighters but it didn’t look like Photeks here on the mall shots. There’s a distinct hole in the front for the light. The modifier on the beach shots was the softlighter because you can see the bulge where the light is.

By: Julian Jones

Julian Jones — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Guys, who was that in the front row?

By: Benji Samosir

Benji Samosir — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:02:00 +0000

ON 0:44 looks like she uses 2 huge softboxes, 74 inch?

By: Edd Carlile

Edd Carlile — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:19:00 +0000

over rated.

By: Shannon Wimberly

Shannon Wimberly — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:03:00 +0000

GD…it I have heard this f-in line of bull for 50 years…..really getting old, and so are they…. men are men and women are women…… so f-in what the male gender is responsible for building history…. i could give a sh*t really…… you want to be a strong hard headed independent woman? go ahead…. it might be just a tad bit lonely though. Love Annie’s work, she is amazing….