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Reprint of August 18, 20011 community discussion post:
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Today i received a 5"x6" color proof print from a photograph i took of myself for a self promotion piece in 1972... for some reason i never used it.
The original transparency and all my prints were destroyed in a fire in 1985, so it was a pleasant surprise to get this copy.
This is a digital point and shoot camera copy of the print...
This was photographed on Ektachrome E-6 using a Hasselblad 500C with a 40mm lens,
so the transparency was a 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch format...
1972 was before PCs, Macs and Photoshop, in the days when one had to do what one could do in the camera to prove their worth as a commercial photographer... in other words there is no retouching involve, and those are 500 watt 32K photo light bulbs. The lights and unicycle were supported from behind by blind supports about 7 feet from the background. The lights were epoxyed on the ends of 10 foot 1/2 conduit tubing and wired with 110 voltage. The wire that lit the bulb in my hand ran up through the jacket, inside and down the sleeve. My glasses slipped a bit and i absentmindedly pushed them back up on the bridge of my nose and the live wires touch my cheek... to bad my assistant missed photographing my reaction...LOL
It was done in one shot no double exposures or montages... What you see is what it was.
Ahh... those were the days.
