I shot actress Jennifer Hall in and around the Pacific Design Center. Keenly observant and intensely detail oriented people might have picked up on that in this photo. The Pacific Design Center is a strange combination of high end interior design firms (80%) and equally high end PR companies (20%). Though the building itself is mostly made of tinted glass, there aren't many lights inside and it can get pretty dark. Helping nothing is the fact that even where the building is lighter, it's hard to find an angle where you are not shooting directly into some kind of bright light. As such, Hall and I went outside. • On the west side of the building there is a rather large fountain that shot plumes of water ten feet into the air... for about three seconds at a time. Then the ten foot plumes would go back down to their normal two foot streams. When the water was in the air, the location looked great. Timing the rise and fall of the fountain's water was trickier than it would initially seem because it didn't follow any kind of set pattern. It'd be down for a minute, up for three seconds, then down for ten seconds and back up again. I'd feverishly take three photos while the water was high and then Hall and I would wait... wait... wait... and then quickly rip off three or four more photos when the water returned. If this was hard on me, it was harder on Hall who had to get in and out of character in nanoseconds flat. Hall was an impish and pixieish delight. Nowhere can that be better seen that in this photo--my favorite from the shoot incidentally--where Hall deals with the wind.
