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I shot this in my studio in Dallas, TX. I met Chandra the day before on an advertising assignment for an eye glass company I was shooting and she was modeling for. She walked in the door in mid conversation with me, as if we had known each other for ever. After the shoot I invited her to come back to the studio the next day to do these shots. We have been friends ever since. And we still shoot together even 25 years later.Time
Although my studio was a hybrid, (daylight/artificial light) studio, I shot this artificial light and I think it was around noonish.Lighting
I shot this with a strobe in a 4X6 foot chimera placed behind Chandra and to the side, actually aiming it into the 4X8 "V" flat making that the key. Several other flats were used to create the shading on the background and her body.Equipment
I used a Speedatron 2400 strobe, in a Chimera 4X6 foot soft box, I used a Hassleblad with an 80mm lens and Koday Plus-x 120 film. Developed in D-76 and printed on Agfa Portriga F surface paper.Inspiration
As I said above, Chandra the subject herself was the inspiration for this picture. It was immediately recognizable that she was even more beautiful on the inside than she was on the outside and that she was able to make that inner beauty visible to the camera. We are still friends to this day.Editing
No post work done other what it took to make a good print. These days, I still love the Portriga look and have created a Lightroom preset using the color grading panel that mimics the look of that beautiful paper. I now print digitally on Hahnemühle Baryta FB paper.In my camera bag
I now shoot mostly motion jobs, but my go to stills camera (and I use on some motion jobs too), is the Canon R5, with fast lenses, 50mm 1.4, 85mm 1.4, 16-35mm 2.8, and I'm waiting for the 100-500 (on back order). I really love the 45 megapixel sensor, I'm not much of a post cropper, as I like to frame in camera, and the large number of pixels give results like a medium format.Feedback
I think when you're photographing a person or animal or even a tree, shoot with your heart, and your heart's eye. I don't mean to sound flaky, but photographs should be a reflexion of the subject's reality. If you want someone to enjoy your work, and feel something when they look at it, you need to feel something when you create it, even if it's only for that moment.