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FALCON 49

It started with a phone call

from an old friend...

er house had burned. carried us while we learned all the
Had it not been for her cat, technical things we should have known

Hwho woke her from her sleep, before we became professionals. In

she would have died in the blaze. If fact, at the time, we were still working
we wanted, she said, we could use in program mode. It would be more

the house as a makeshift studio until than a year before we would master

repairs began. It was the manual use of our
2005. We had be- cameras. Still, I had

come professionals just received word that
just two years earlier. Digital Camera World

We didn’t have a magazine had award-
studio. We didn’t own ed one of my photos a

strobes. We owned a Gold Star Award. So,

Canon EOS 1Ds, a all things considered,
1Ds Mark II, and things were all right.

three or four lenses.

In the grand scheme r ememb e r
of things, we were I
entering a series
clueless. Our “light- of numbers into
ing kit” consisted of the box that held the

a bag of candles, a 100-watt bulb, and key. Then, placing the key in the door. I
a flashlight. Eventually, we added a went in, and yes, it was burned. In typi-

“real” light kit that actually contained cal fashion, I ignored the obvious chal-

light stands and umbrellas. Hardly ad- lenges presented by what I saw and pro-
equate. It was our artistic vision that ceeded to get to work. Later, however, as

nyghtvision magazine volume 3, number 1, WINTER 2013