DeMille…Yo!

Every time I see a massive, shape-shifting dark gray storm cloud — a really big one, I mean — my mind always recalls those swirling God clouds above Charlton Heston during the red-sea parting in Cecil D. Demille’s The Ten Commandments. What a grotesque hypocrite DeMille was, and yet he had a great eye and the diligence and exactitude to make his films look just so.


This Getty images photo from N.Y. Times was removed before I could copy the photographer’s name.

8 thoughts on “DeMille…Yo!

  1. I saw that last night and the first thing I thought was that either it had ben massively under-exposed or it was taken down in Photoshop.
    The give away is that none of the electrical lights or street lights are popping. When you normally shoot in low light, you open the aperture. In exterior settings, this causes electrical lights, which are brighter than the daylight, to pop — if you’ve ever shot at dawn or magic hour, you know what I mean. Yes, when shooting sky, you normally have to take things down, understood.
    But in this photo, all of the lights are subdued or muddy. Which leads me to assume it was deliberately under-exposed to heighten the effect of the clouds.

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