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from Robert Anderson (info@rapfoto.com)
Thanks guys!

As Tony noted, the cigar looks unlit, but this image was #3 or #4 from the first roll. I just liked his expression here. If you look real close you can see that the upper edge is discolored --from being lit. Later on we played around with flicking ashes on the 'little people, ect.

dr.5 is a process done in-house by AIM in Los Angeles. Invented [?] by a former photographer, David Wood, it is a complicated collection of soups that based on your ei. and film stock yields either wonderful [or disastrous] results. This marked the first time I used the process on an assignment, and I am very happy with the results. I no longer have to make numerous prints, tone them , and submit the whole mess to the client. dr.5 lets me continue my workflow as usual, submitting trany's, and thus [mostly!] ensuring that what I shot [the look/feel and exposure] is what they're going to reproduce [well, that's the plan anyway!].

We shot this in the real 'hood' of south L.A., and I had to have several assistants stand guard [we had at any one time at least seven to eight 'locals' that wanted to get involved, or poke around in my camera cases looking for my stash of cookies or something]. I wish that I had the gonads of most of you street shooters here and would have grabbed a couple of shots of the extracurricular activities -- there was one lady in particular who had one of those Aunt Unice hat's on, and she was muttering [okay yelling] that we were all invited over to the ‘laundry’ for supper. But with a worried publicist, and a setting sun we just shot what we were after and then ate at Mickey D’s.

Thanks again!

(posted 8390 days ago)

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