Miami Beach is an island just a few miles east of Miami and can be reached by a number of causeways and bridges. Yet, since many of the best labs and rental houses are in Miami Beach, few people shooting and staying there ever need to leave the beach. South Beach (or SoBe) refers to the southern tip of Miami Beach (basically below 23rd Street) and is just another name for the Art Deco District.
In the early 1990s, Miami Beach became the 'Fashion Catalog Capitol of the World' because photographers discovered that by using long telephoto lenses wide open, it was easy to capture images of beautiful models with out-of-focus backgrounds of other photographers shooting images of beautiful models with out-of-focus backgrounds...
The upside of all of this was an influx of labs and equipment rental houses. On the downside, all the locations that used to let you shoot for free will now remind you that the movie crew of 100 that trampled their place paid them $5000 for 20 hours. So now the price to shoot in front of their hotel for 20 minutes is, of course, $5000...
About Me
- Brian Smith
- Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- Pulitzer Prize-winner Brian Smith has photographed the famous and infamous faces of our time. His photographs of celebrities, athletes, titans of industry both noteworthy and notorious appear in magazines, annual reports and advertising. Over the past 25 years, his assignments have taken him on location to six continents as his photographs have graced the covers and pages of hundreds of magazines.
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