PAW: Wheels

[Paul Stenquist]

Twenty-some years ago I worked for a small automotive magazine in New 
York. We did a lot of our own photography, including covers and 
spreads. I shot most of the big stuff with my Speed Graphic and 
Wollensak 127 lens. Our studio was a janitor's closet on the 6th floor 
of the old Hearst building on 57th street. For this shot I bought 
twenty yards of black gabardine at Macy's (they asked if I was making a 
nun) and piled it around four boxes that I had stacked in the closet. 
The lights were tungsten. I couldn't get a great lighting arrangement 
and ended up with some real hot highlights, but they worked okay with 
the prismatic starburst filter on the front of the Wollensak. Anyway, 
that's the story, here's the pic:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2572055