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Amongst other things there are other things, and these things need to be worked out.
The studio is booked and paid for, and we will be shooting in seven days’ time. At the core of Photofusion’s studio tech are the six Bowens Esprit DX flash heads on a high glide system. So…flash over continuous lighting? Having put the word out, I have a serious need for obsolete tungsten balanced, negative and positive film. We also require high contrast line film. In keeping with the modus of any photographic shoot, I’ve got a big lunch planned at Okan specialising in the Osaka street food, okonomiyaki.
So there’s seven working hours on shoot day, split into four parts. There is the potential to shoot up to eight rolls of film, splitting colour from black and white. I need two tungsten balanced films for any reproductions with continuous lighting and two daylight balanced for flash. I need low ISOs and high contrast in terms of black and white. I’m opting for high grain and high contrast for colour. I’m intending to process all black and white films domestically, using hand tanks to achieve the desired lith film contrast.
I acknowledge that our common goals are line and light, and the celluloid that I’ve chosen to use to record our shared endeavours will do so with such clarity and contrast that the negatives will be indelible, with a life expectancy of 500 years*.
*endorsed by the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
