A Blurred Failure?
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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| Valerie Easton, Jackie Coleman, Viktoria Langton, circa late 70s at the CBC |
A local dance magazine has requested a
photograph I took sometime in the late 70s of a CBC variety show that featured Jeff Hyslop as the male dancer. Looking for the requested picture I found that
my extensive CBC files did not harbour said image. I got depressed at the
thought of losing the money the dance magazine was offering. Then I thought a
bit and went down to my files and found to big three-ring binders that had the
label, CBC b+w and CBC colour. It was in the second that I found the picture. I
could fill a large hockey arena with pictures I took at the CBC. Perhaps when I
am dead someone will offer my widow money for what represents a moment in time
when the CBC was important to all of us and our government was able to support
its needs.
Within that colour binder I found a these
three 120, medium format, strips of colour negative shot on Kodak Vericolor II
Professional. I must have been insane to attempt to freeze motion in the 3200
degree Kelvin movie lighting with 160 ISO film. I have no idea if I had the
film push processed to 300 ISO. It would seem that my experiment of crouching
on the floor with my extremely heavy Mamiya RB-67 and its 65mm wide angle lens
was a failure. I filed away the pictures and I had forgotten them as I have
many others.
But a good scanner can reveal that there is
good stuff here. The dancers from left to right are Valerie Easton, Jackie
Coleman and Viktoria Langton I had been primed by dancer Jim Hibbard to always
shoot dancers from the floor to make them look taller. I sort of like the
blurs.
