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| 35mm transparency film |
My last session of 1999 was by far the most successful of the natural
light sessions I did with Joe and Billie. Unlike
the first session in the front room two days earlier, the sun was shining, and the light was
perfect. This permitted me to use the slower speed Astia film, which is
by far my favorite for skin-tones. It can not be overstated, the
importance in selecting the right film for the right subject; and while
this is true in black and white, it is doubly true for colour slide
film.
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| 35mm transparency film |
It never ceases to amaze me the difference between the same
room on an overcast afternoon, and a sunny one. Where before I was
fighting to keep enough light on the models to work by, on this
afternoon, there was more than enough light - occasionally I put my
shutter-speed up to 1/250th of a second just to keep my focus as narrow
as I like. The work went fast, and the models were running out of ideas
for poses before I was out of film.
Where
the first session in the front room with Joe and Billie left me with a
couple of good images, and the feeling that I was on the right track,
the second session, the second session gave me everything I was hoping
for and more. The luminosity and glow which contributed so much to the
Thalamus work was present throughout the session, and even some film
tests I did with a Fuji 6x9 rangefinder turned out successfully.
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| 6x9 cm transparency film |
The flurry of photography initiated by Joe and Billie's arrival on Christmas day brought a wonderful close to my year. 47 rolls of 35mm and 120 film, and 12 sheets of 4x5 film were the results of more than thirteen hours of working over three days. The body of work we produced together has a consistency that is encouraging, while also opening areas of work with had previously only been ideas. The overwhelming success of the colour images over the black and white has left me somewhat baffled, but regardless, the final body of work is a great addition to my work as a whole.
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