Emily,
I recall seeing little white hexagons in the eyes of portraits shown in an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences several years ago. I assumed that they were images of the photographer's umbrella flash setup, or the diaphragm in the camera lens -- essentially reflections from the surface of the eyeball. Every portrait had them. Is this a possible explanation?
These look like reflections of the lighting equipment in the eyeball, possibly even a reflection of the photographer as well. But they're not obvious rectangles like bank lights or diffusers, they're more like little printer's errors, almost water spots, but precise and sharply a white circle.
Roberty and I can't scan the photo because I only have a film scanner. Sorry. I tried to find it on the web, but the circles are so tiny I doubt they would be visible and there weren't any pix of Roach on the web by Schoeller. There was a wonderful page of pix of Roach on some jazzdrummer site, however!
Maybe I can find a way to a flatbed tomorrow.
What sorts of techniques do you consider a trademark of Schoeller's style, Bobberty?
I was interested also, from looking in Google, that it appears Schoeller went to Corbis from Saba. I wonder whether he's getting disillusioned with that now.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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