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This study of the densely packed skyline of Los Angeles is from my series of buildings shot for the Tonight Show. We were building a poster version of the City of the Angels. This monochrome rendering reminded Richard Lund of the work of Andreas Feininger, a New York photographer whose book, Total Picture Control, set Richard on his path to understanding how to capture tonality.

Richard Lund entered the film industry in 1980. He did specialized photography making background pictures for motion pictures and television. He shot 8x10 plates for his first movie in Riverside California. The film was Buddy, Buddy directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. He printed the pictures with a crew on Kodak Translite film. Thus began his career. Personally he photographed large format images for 240 feature films and a lot of television. Additionally he supervised production of about two thousand background pictures. He originated the Chromatrans full color backgrounds, inventing the seaming process for this new style polyester based film. (The original Translites were black and white with color...