The 39 Steps 5821-2 - a photo on Flickriver

            I took this as a publicity photo for the Metro Theatre's production of The 39 Steps – a farcical stage adaptation of the Hitchcock film classic. For me the aesthetic lands somewhere between 'Old Hollywood' and 'Sin City'. This was a fun shoot and the actors were all really great to work with.

The show runs September 20 – October 11 2014. More details are available at metrotheatre.com.

Lit with gridded strip boxes on White Lightening Ultra 600s (one on either side of the grouping) with the faces removed and a gridded Alien Bees ABR800 off camera and high-up on a stand providing key light. My objective with the ABR800 was to simulate stage lighting. Triggered with Pocket Wizard Plus IIs on my Nikon D610 with my twenty year old 50mm f/1.8 lens. There was also an SB-800 on the floor behind them being triggered optically to provide a little definition in the blacks behind.

B&W conversion, 4x5 crop and a liberal dose of both local and general clarity adjustments were applied in Lightroom 5.6. A 'glow' layer was added in Photoshop afterwards.

Taken on: August 21, 2014

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Hitchcock

Patrick Barlow

old Hollywood

fedora

trenchcoat

play

theatre

side light

strobist

dramatic

film noir

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farce

fun

portrait

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Sets appears in: • portraits • Theatre more » • strobist stuff « less

Groups appears in: • 50mm (The original 50mm group) • Vancouver Strobist more » • Nikon D600/D610 CLUB « less

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