taking the photos

Taking the photo's went really well.
The photography technicians were great and gave me further guidance in the lighting.
My 8 models arrived and i put them in costume, black clothes, cloaks and hat (which i hired from the west yorkshire playhouse costume hire), and doiley collars and paper moustaches (which i had spent time making this week). and positioned them around the game and took some test shots on a digital camera to make sure everything was looking good.
It looked perfect and i was really happy.
After a few shots i got used to the reversed image on the medium format camera and was taking some really good shots.
i started with recreating the painting but with operation in the place of the dead man.
i then went on to creating some images blending the idea of the autopsy with playing the game, obviously the heavy dark costumes were great for creating the autopsy idea, so i directed my models to be happy and showed them some pictures of some old games boxes (with children playing the game) and we created this image.
finally with only a couple of shots left i stepped in place as the dead man and we went back to a slightly more serious autopsy idea.
I took the photos to be developped but was told it would take 2 weeks, so i researched for another local developpers who would devlop medium format film and eventually found someone who could do it that day for me. so i dropped it off the next morning.