Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Definitely good work! Thanks for sharing. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:17 PM Subject: [Leica] very very short skirts and gigantic steam locomotives >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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >