[Leica] very very short skirts and gigantic steam locomotives

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Brilliant stuff - again- Kyle!!
Cheers
Douglas

Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> I learned from Mary Ellen Mark years ago that photography has much less to 
> do with cameras and lenses than we tend to think it does and more with 
> being able to talk to people.
>
> To show off this Steampunk wardrobe I realized what the photograph needed 
> was a real honest to goodness steam engine. A call to the wonderful people 
> at the Franklin Institute Science Museum got me and my two models 30 
> uninterrupted minutes with their 350 ton locomotive before the museum 
> opened. The lighting I think is secondary to the costumes (all hand made 
> by the models wearing them) and the set -- it consists of a main light 
> with a 4 inch cereal-box snoot at 1/4 power and a fill bounced off the 
> wall at 1/8 power.
>
> Check it out. It's the best thing I've done lately.
>
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2009/steampunk-1.jpg
>
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