[Leica] very very short skirts and gigantic steam locomotives

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

I learned from Mary Ellen Mark years ago that photography has much less to 
do with cameras and lenses than we tend to think it does and more with being 
able to talk to people.

To show off this Steampunk wardrobe I realized what the photograph needed 
was a real honest to goodness steam engine. A call to the wonderful people 
at the Franklin Institute Science Museum got me and my two models 30 
uninterrupted minutes with their 350 ton locomotive before the museum 
opened. The lighting I think is secondary to the costumes (all hand made by 
the models wearing them) and the set -- it consists of a main light with a 4 
inch cereal-box snoot at 1/4 power and a fill bounced off the wall at 1/8 
power.

Check it out. It's the best thing I've done lately.

http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2009/steampunk-1.jpg