Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]" Halsman and his 4 x 5 format, twin-lens reflex camera" is how this was shot. He designed the camera. Gowland did the same. For pointy footed glamour gals. A format famous on the LUG for being incapable of capturing action! Can not be done! You need roll film! As he used high speed strobes it would not matter much which film he used. He could probably have used the slowest high rez avable not that with this format it would make much difference in any result smaller than the wall in Grand Central Station.. Other than hotter strobes and perhaps slightly longer flash durations.. And probably shot it at f16. The f stop way beyond all LUG rhyme and reason. In the early '80s I tried doing a version of this shot once with my Balcars and a gal who went on to become ridiculously famous. She hired me in effect to do that shot. "The one with the cats and the water" In my own mind it was simply a matter of "do something impossible". I may have fallen short. She went out and bought the cats and showed up to the shoot. After two throws I actually became aware the small cats were not so happy about being thrown through the air with a bunch of water. Halsman had them do it 28 times. But people smoked cigarettes around babies in 1948. Our brains were different. I was very concerted the client didn't let lose the cats into the city, Portland after the shoot as I was not convinced she was a cat person . and every time she called me I asked where the cats where and she said they were in the hall. They may have been on the fire escape or the street. Or on the roof. Or in kitty heaven. With the air of tuna in the air. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/