the shot
throughout the shoot there was one flash head with a softbox on a boom about
10 ft (3 m) above Micky—my studio has a very high ceiling which gives me the
ability to set my lights high, thereby reducing the contrast of light and dark. in the
shot that i liked the best we had replaced the flash head inside the prop to give
minimal light from below. Werner stood next to me, holding a black panel to
prevent the overhead light from shining into my lens; the gray paper backdrop
was 13 ft (4 m) wide, allowing us plenty of leeway to move about.164 PhotoGraPhers’ GallerY
Micky, Vienna 2007For this shot
Camera: hasselblad h2d with Phase one
P45 back; 80mm lens
Aperture: f/11
Shutter speed: 1/750th of a second
Sensor/film speed: iso 100
Lighting: hensel flash heads, 4000 watt
and 1600 wattDigital choice
i got used to my digital
hasselblad very fast. the
advantage of digital over film
is that i can view the result
straight away and decide
what to change much more
quickly than was possible
doing Polaroid tests.
Studying the results
at the end of a shoot i get all the
images up on screen, edit them,
and consider what retouching needs
to be done to them.