Denver 1994. Warren Zeller, portrait.
In my pursuit of purging a zillion negatives from my files I discovered I am not a good friend.
Good friends stay in touch with those he likes. And I loved Warren Zeller. A great man, husband, father, tennis player. I found four, 4×5 Polaroid 55 negatives from a portrait shoot I did of Warren in 1994. We lost touch with one another around 2000. Busy raising kids, chasing dollars, and other lame excuses. I wanted to mail the negs to Warren, so I looked him up on the interweb thing and read his obituary. He died in 2017.
Photography teaches you so much about yourself. Especially the negatives.
I scanned this for ya’ll. Back in the day, Polaroid had Type 55 that was both positive and negative. Like me. Sometimes.
I popped a Polaroid to check light (balanced window light and Norman 800 strobes (in a softbox). The film Polaroid used was Kodak Panatomic-X, 32 asa. To get a good negative from the 55 film, you had to overexpose by 2/3 stop. So, the print was a bit washy, but the negative was grand.
I leave you with my friend, Warren Zeller. Father, husband, friend and businessman.
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Zone VI 4×5 Field Camera, 210mm Schneider lens, 1/1 @ ƒ/22, Norman 800 Speedliights, Chimera Soft Box, processed in Sodium Sulfite, Glacial Acid stop, Kodak Rapid Fix for 5-minutes, washed in Zone VI 11×14 Archival Washer, PhotoFlo for 1-minute, hang dry overnight (1994) and scanned on Epson V850 at 600 dpi and 48-bit color (2025) for repro separations in CMYK.
