One page summary on studio notes

•  These do not need to be expensive, nowadays you can get a couple of lights for about the same price as a halfway decent telephoto lens.
• If you tried to get the same amount of light from a continuous source the heat would be unbearable.
• In the old days before studio flash was available photographers used big arc lights
• Having lots of power means that you can control the light in interesting ways
• the recycling time was so slow that it became a bit embarrassing keeping everyone waiting while the flash recharged. I found it very hard to keep those smiles coming.
• The peppers were shot at an aperture setting of f32 giving maximum depth of field, the picture is a sharp as a pin from front to back.
• All the head shots on the following pages were exposed at 1/100sec at f32 with the ISO set at 200.
• the camera was set at 1/100th of a second, the actual effective exposure time is the duration of the flash, normally less than 1/1000th of a second
• Anything that was sensitive to heat, ice cream for instance, was impossible to shoot, they used to use mashed potato instead and make it look like ice cream.
•  In the old days before studio flash was available photographers used big arc lights