Shot on Film: Michelle

Back in 2005 we were photographing an aspiring model name Michelle.  I’m pretty certain that this was Michelle’s first professional photo shoot.  We brought in an amazing make up artist and did the shoot at Bruce Starrenburg’s Light Box Studio. 

I shot the images using three Photogenic Machine II power packs, with a 48” soft box as a main light, a high back glamour head for a broad hair light and 36” bank light as a kick.   My main camera was a Minolta XE-7 loaded with Fuji Astia 100F color reversal slide film.  Lenses were a Minolta Rokkor 58mm 1.2, and a Vivitar 100mm 2.8 prime portrait lens.

 

As we were shooting, Bruce was processing our exposed film and we all had a great time at the end of the day drinking martinis and looking at the images trough a loupe on the studio light table.  We were really pleased with the shoot and Michelle was awesome to work with.  She took direction like a seasoned professional.

 

Below are just a few slides pulled from the shoot and scanned full frame using a Minolta DiMage 5400 dedicated film scanner.