BOONE from Christopher LaMarca on Vimeo.

I’ve been a big fan of Christopher Lamarca’s work for years. He’s always had a knack for making beautiful, natural light environmental portraits.

And now he’s starting to work with motion. See his (literally) first few days of working in a new medium, above.

Lamarca is embedded on a Portland goat farm, capturing the daily struggle of the farmers. It’s called BOONE, which I think is a first rate name. Sounds sort of like “Brigadoon”. Sounds like something is gonna happen there.

Here’s how he’s making it:

“I’m shooting on a canon 5d mark 11. 35m fixed lens, L series. For audio I’m using a zoom recorder with everyone wearing wireless lavaleir mic’s.  Also for sound there is a rode shotgun mic mounted on the camera. This is all being held together by a rig made by Zacuto ,called the Z cage…I’m feeling the filmmaker within my being and growing into it day by day…”

I love how his use of soft natural light stays intact; I can’t wait to see what he has after a year of filming!

More of Chris’s stills: