What do Football, Horses, and the President have in Common?
They are all printed on 75lb. Arctic Polar Luster®
Interview with Red River Paper PRO Bill Frakes
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RRP: Why did you pick Arctic Polar Luster for your print projects?
Frakes: There are three principal reasons I pick Arctic Polar Luster for my print projects. I like the weight of the paper. I love the way the images pop off of the page. I know I can count on the consistency of the product with every box I open.
RRP: Any recent projects where you used Arctic Polar Luster?
Frakes: Last year. Lino and Abramo Manfrotto invited me to hang a show in Libreria Palazzo Roberti in Bassano del Grappa, Italy during the Bassano Fotografia festival. It's a medieval building in a lovely old city nestled on the edge of the Italian Alps.
The show was 40 prints of different sizes. |
Image of President Obama included in Manfrotto Italian exhibit. |
Kentucky Derby © Bill Frakes
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RRP: As a Sports Illustrated photographer, what is your favorite event to cover?
Frakes: My favorite yearly event to cover is the Kentucky Derby.
RRP: What are some exciting projects you’ve been working on lately?
Frakes: I just came back from Norway covering the Aurora Borealis. I was also on the jury for World Press Photo 2013.
Our next big project is the Sandhill Cranes Photo Tour coming up in
mid March.
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RRP: What’s in your digital darkroom?
Frakes: We use four Epson printers - the Epson 3880, 3800, 4800, and the Epson 7900.
We use Mac computers, a bunch of them! We've networked all of the Macs so that anyone in my office can access our library of photography. We're really proud of our storage array. Right now it has over 100 terabytes of available storage. We use Apple's Aperture to catalog our images.
For editing and print preparation we use Photoshop CS6 and NIK Silver Efex.
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RRP: What was the most memorable Superbowl you shot?
Frakes: Every Super Bowl is memorable for one reason or another, but my favorite may have been Super Bowl XLII between New York Giants and the New England Patriots. The first time I photographed Eli Manning he was 11, and it was great to watch him play so well in Phoenix.
RRP: Do you have any tips for people interested in sports photography?
Frakes: The best thing an aspiring sports photographer can do is the same thing athletes do--practice hard.
Bill Frakes is a Sports Illustrated staff photographer and has worked in more than 125 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients including Nike, Coca-Cola, Champion, Isleworth, Stryker, IBM, Nikon, Kodak and Reebok. Editorially, his work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the world, and he has received hundreds of national and international awards.
www.billfrakes.com
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