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Bobby Present, RBC Dain Rauscher

Bobby Present
Senior Vice President - Investment Officer
RBC Dain Rauscher
Tucson, AZ ~ 3:00 PM on 10.1.1998

Chuck LaBresh, art director for Registered Representative asked for an interesting Environmental Portrait of Bobby Present of RBC Dain Rauscher for the November 1998 cover story. This photo ran inside across 2 pages.

We arrived in Tucson and looked for a location to shoot the outside cover shot first, which we did at 11:30 AM, then proceeded inside to find a spot for this photo. I walked through the offices, which are sort of a typical florescent lit scenereo, but I saw this mail room area and turned it into this shot to the left. Since RBC Dain Rauscher is a working office of stock brokers we had to wait until 3 pm AZ time to shoot, which was after the stock market had closed in NY.

Strobist info / Lighting: (11) Dynalites
Main Light: Small Chimera softbox w/black wrap.
Edge Light: 10 degree grod spot.
Foreground lighting: (3) grids w/double full CTB.
Background lighting (3) heads with purple gel.
Mail slots: (3) 10" reflectors with full CTO.

Exposure for the shot goes like this: All the florescent lights are turned off. We expose the subject by firing the main, edge and foreground lights (synced to the lens), then place a Harrison & Harrison filter in front of the lens, then the photo assistant pops the background lights so they expose through the filter creating the beautiful glowing areas. We turned the monitor brightness way down so it would not over expose during the time the lens was open.

Hasselblad 50mm lens with 81B filter
Exposure: about 2 sec. @ f/8 (camera is on "B")
Film: Fuji Astia RAP 100
Photo assistant: Lyle Moultrie

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