How do you photograph a busy, dedicated artist?
First get them out of the studio and into the garden. At least there will be enough light for a tolerably short exposure.
Then sit them down on a turned kitchen chair. The back of the chair offers support for the subject who is enjoined not to move. And it is a passably comfortable place to wait while I fuss with focussing and exposure arithmetic. A quiet ciggie helps calm the nerves.
The back of the camera was swung to angle the focus plane through the subject who was not sitting square to the camera. This angled focus plane just catches the end of the wooden rail at the right hand edge of the picture.
Exposure and processing were routine. Here is the result:
Susan
Gelatin-silver photograph on Kodak Polymax Fine Art VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.5cm X 24.6cm, from a 8x10 Tmax 100 large format negative exposed in a Plaubel Profia monorail view camera fitted with a 10 inch Commercial Ektar lens.
Titled, signed, and stamped verso.
Susan is an artist. Her aircraft pictures are famous.