006-TOILETWO
I met her at a shoot and she asked if I could do a headshot because she wanted to move into broadcasting. After some basic portraits, we spent an hour playing with my then favorite cross-processing technique. Kodak VPL negative film, over-exposed 2.5 stops with a full and a half CTO gel (orange) on the strobe. The film was then processed as a transparency (E6), usually pushed at least a half stop. Add to that a Pepper 150 tungsten hot light with a focusing snoot that would project the circles of the light's Fresnel lens onto the background. Shot at a full second exposure holding a Hasselblad 500CM with an 80mm lens over my head upside down, manually focusing each frame, then shaking the camera as I exposed. That still doesn't explain the location. Our 2500 square foot studio in San Francisco's can building had a 500 square foot bathroom. We stored our gear on huge racks next to three of these toilet stalls. Seemed like a good idea for a location at the time.