![]() ![]() I invite you to watch 10 Hours Walking in NYC as a Goth before reading the rest of this blog post, you’ll laugh and the whole thing will make more sense! Click to watch video My first foray into video started off as a parody of sorts, but then it got serious as I delved deeper into the project and realized I could offer a commentary on what fringe persona have to deal with on a daily basis. Portrait of Paradox shot with RX10 at 180mm 2.8 jpg and processed in Snapseed This photoshoot had all the hallmarks of a crappy outcome. I miss-placed the heavy duty cable release that is needed for that behemoth of a lens and had to hand trip the shutter. My assistant held a 32″ Silver Reflector to try to direct the anemic light while giving a little fill to Paradox’s magnetic eyes. Using a Pentax Digi Spot I arrived at 100th of a second wide open. I pushed the FP4 to 400 iso (two stops from its native 125) and opened up the Kodak Commercial 14 inch f6.8 all the way. We started the shoot late, and the sun was setting early in mid November. Camera of choice being a 8×10 Deardorff loaded with Ilford FP4. ![]() But when I set up my 10 Hours Walking as a Goth photoshoot I decided to face my fears and start the video shoot with a still shot. So I played it safe and stuck to landscapes. What if the model moves in that time and the focus is so shallow that I miss the mark? “First world 8×10 Film Shooter’s problems” I fear being able to focus, I fear not be able to see as I do with a reflex view, I fear the time it takes to focus, pull the dark cloth, load the film, pull the dark slide, and finally make the exposure. I have one fear, and that is to shoot my beloved portraits with an 8×10 camera. Portrait of Paradox, from 10 Hours Walking as a Goth in NYC viral video. ![]()
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