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This morning I photographed Craig Slike, aka “the mole”, the guy from the last ABC series “The Mole”.  Shot for a local magazine. Craig was a really nice guy, and reminded me of Drew Carey a little bit. I found out later Slike has his own website, Craig Slike.com.

Emotion came out (smiles, reaction, laughs) when I asked him about the show, so I talked about that during the shoot. He told me about one scene where he was tasked with running through an Argentinian city in his underwear with a skinny guy, also in underwear. He said during that stunt, which he did for the TV show, the locals called them “10″ in Spanish. “Ten! Ten! Ten!” The skinny guy looked like the number one, and Slike’s body shape resembled, well, a zero. 10.

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I shot both medium format film and digital. The medium format film still gives a look that is not necessary better quality wise than full frame digital, but it has a different look. There is more depth. There’s a 3d look to it, where digital sometimes to me looks a bit 2d. There’s not a clear way for me to explain it, but the larger the negative, the more lifelike images look. I used a small Westcott softbox for the outdoor portraits, and a large umbrella with just a hint of light from the side on the other portraits. I get the film processed and scanned at a local lab.