Tom Skerritt
Got an e-mail from the editor of the The Stranger last week to shoot a Mr. Tom Skerritt. When I got the e-mail, I asked my co-worker who he was. He mentioned a few movies and when I finally looked him up, I instantly recognized him and was very excited to be photographing such an accomplished actor. When he finally came in for the shoot he was fascinated by the studio camera and the whole antique process. He couldn’t have been a more pleasant guy to shoot. I didn’t want to waste his time so I got right to work and managed to shoot 3 plates in an hours time. The first shot was way too dark. The second shot is the one that came out the best but the third was pretty good too.
This is the second shot and the one that will probably be on the cover of the Stranger. It was shot at f4.5 for 10 seconds with the Taylor-Hobson Cooke lens on an 8 x 10 peice of glass. The godamn hot plate that use to dry the glass plates was way too hot and the corner cracked. It just broke off a corner and didn’t shatter the plate into bits…… :0/
Right before he left I talked him into posing with the big camera.