Iron Maiden
This is what you do when there is no location or props at your
disposal. I was on assignment and meeting the reporter at the
landmark Capitol Records building in Hollywood. When we reached the publicity department the writer was shown a room for the interview. I was taken to another room and asked to wait. Capitol Records was redoing all their offices and this was one of them. It had just been freshly painted. In fact, the room was very Daliesque, surreal all-white walls and a door. About ten minutes later the publicist came into the room and said that only two of the members of the group would be available for the shoot and that I would only have a few minutes with the two guys. And that I would have to shoot in this room. They did not have the time to go anywhere else because they were late for a sound check. At that moment, the two band members walked in. I thought fast and put on my camera a 24mm lens and shot available light, trying to capture the feeling that I got when I first walked into the office, a vacuum. I hoped there was enough available light reflected from the freshly painted white walls for what I had in mind. I told the subjects to step three feet away from the wall and when I say "go" make believe that a vacuum is sucking you up against the wall. They were good sports and did what I asked. I even had time to do it a few times. Afterward, they both looked at each other, laughed, and then congratulated me on a "bloody job well done."
Tri-X 400ASA 1/60sec. f/4 24mm lens Available light