This set was a challenge to see what we could come up with using a single short length of rope. I decided that the best
bet was to utilise the four-poster bed in the location we'd hired in Ireland and immobilise her using just a wrist rope by
binding her arms behind her back and around the pole.
What I HADN'T intended was to shoot this as a 1970's Penthouse soft-focus/diffusion style set. That was an unavoidable accident.
The house we were staying in hadn't been occupied over the winter so it took some time to warm through and air. The main
rooms had warmed up OK by this stage, but the box room where we kept all the kit for the trip was completely unheated and
the warmth of the rest of the house had yet to percolate this far. And Ireland being Ireland, the air was pretty humid.
So when I got the camera out of the kit room and brought it in to the bedroom to shoot, the sensor and all the elements
inside the lens were at near-freezing temperatures.
Met by warm damp air from the rest of the house, the whole optical system
started to gently fog up. I didn't notice at first, as you can see from the first few shots which don't have that retro glamour
look. I realised what was going on and cleared the front of the lens, but there was subtle fogging on the sensor and in some of
the internal optics as well.
Since Ariel was already tied up, and since I could see from the back of the camera
that we were getting some sort of useable image, I thought we'd just go for it!