This was Difficult!

These are a couple of the most difficult shoots as per basis of the 'contest'.
They were most difficult because as assignments from the publishers I was producer, director & photographer, and model agent, each was a full layout with covers, centerfolds, and shooting bikes w/ all the custom details of the bike, with the girls included in 50% of the shots, all on location at old factory in downtown LA.. Everything is shot with my Pentax 6x7 & my Nikon F3 - For lighting it was two Norman power packs with about 6 or 10 strobe light heads, chimera softboxes, snoots, umbrellas, sandbags, c-stands, flags, silks, fog machine, sync cord, slaves, cables, all kinds of stuff I was really into having the total pro set up back then,,,the shoots required a huge variety of shots, about 15 + rolls. 36exp. 100 asa, of 35mm & about 10 rolls of the 6x7 film for cover shots, Velvia or Extachrome, always chrome film (slide film) was the standard..I'd use one asst. and a makeup girl usually, it was all pretty routine because I shot these layouts for all kinds of magazines like this, every week for 15yrs...but it was always pretty difficult, when shooting film, with all the gear and with publisher money on the line or on spec. to be sold to magazines .. budgets for the Easyrider shoots was $3000 per shoot.. they'd get 1st rights usage.. cost was about $1500 or so, film and processing alone was about $300 at A&I Lab in Hollywood. Difficult but always exciting and fun..these two covers are in their top10 best sellers of all time up to present day.