C O O G A N     P H O T O G R A P H Y   W I T H   A   V I S I O N

99-1213g2_greg_binder.jpg

Greg Binder
Web Master / Project Manager, City of Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix, AZ ~ 1:15 PM on 12.13.1999

Environmental Portrait of Greg Binder, Web Master / Project Manager, for the City of Phoenix for Civic.com Magazine, which is now Federal Computer Week Magazine.

Jeff Langkau, the art director for for Civic.com and Federal Computer Week Magazine, asked for an environmental portrait of Greg Binder to illustrate the idea of "Webmasters in the Hot Seat" for their January 2000 cover (I would have loved to set the chair on fire, but . . . that was not feasible for this shot. Since I couldn't go with the hot look, I decided to go the opposite route and chose to go with a very cool temperature color.

We shot the standard shots first, having Greg look in the camera and sit in the chair, a few profile views all on Fuji RDP II (daylight balanced film).

Then I shot a few rolls of Kodak VPS 160 (color negative film) with an 80A filter (very blue filter, normally used to convert daylight to tungsten color temperature) on the lens and had the lab process it in E6 chemistry -- photographers call this "Cross Processing". If you attempt this, make sure you open up your exposure about 1/2 stop from your normal exposure reading, then have the lab "push process" the film at least 2 stops -- because it needs the contrast.

We used 2 Dynalites here -- a main light and an edge light about 1/2 stop over the main exposure. Shot with the Hasselblad ELX, 50mm lens. For the cross Processing effect, VPS was shot at f/5.6 @ 125th of a second with an 80A filter (which has a 2 stop filter factor).

I told Greg to "look off camera, laughing like you just don't care..."

Previous Editorial Gallery 2 Next