I just dug up this image of Randy Jacobs I shot for Guitar Player Magazine thirty years ago. They never used this and thanks to modern scanning and retouching, it really came alive today. T-Max100 with an RZ67 was always a great combo. Randy first got known playing in Detroit with Was Not Was but has gone on to play with a huge variety of artists in many genres of music, including Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Seal, Paula Abdul, Kris Kristofferson, Ofra Haza, Tears For Fears, Warren Hill and others.
Since this was shot in the alley behind the old studio in Venice, Ca. I'm pretty sure I just ran an extension cord into the alley and lit this with the Balcars. Well, it looks like it's just a single light, probably with a 12 inch reflector and a grid spot.
Peter,
That's why I didn't mention it. In 1992 it would have been Photoshop v2.0, or 2.5. The nit was the highlight reflection off the top of his head. Sometimes retouching gradients like that were difficult in Photoshop. I would have likely made a feather edge radial fill using the lightest nearby tone, and the darkest nearby tone. A different application of an alpha channel "tip" I learned from Kai Krause on a Compuserv BBS I read at the time.
Jim Peter Figen wrote:
There's probably stuff I would have changed as well, but it was thirty years ago, so I'm okay with it now. What was your nit
James Markus wrote:
Peter,
That's why I didn't mention it. In 1992 it would have been Photoshop v2.0, or 2.5. The nit was the highlight reflection off the top of his head. Sometimes retouching gradients like that were difficult in Photoshop. I would have likely made a feather edge radial fill using the lightest nearby tone, and the darkest nearby tone. A different application of an alpha channel "tip" I learned from Kai Krause on a Compuserv BBS I read at the time.
Jim
I see your point. I looked at that and did smooth out a shadow line on the camera left side of his face from the sun but left the reflection on top as it didn't really bother me. I think I might have taken it down a touch but I was okay with it. And yes, that would probably have be v2 back then. I started with v3 in January of '95. Layers but no adjustment layers yet. You really had to plan it out and be creative back then.
