Black and White Photoshoot

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Black and White Photoshoot
Before the days of digital cameras…. it was a matter of taking LOTS of photos until you hopefully captured the perfect image.

Read Art Director Dave Sauvage’s memories of such a photoshoot in 1990 and see photos, published here for the first time.

These photos of Grand Master Paul McPhail were taken at Lloyd Elsmore Park in Auckland New Zealand around 1990. Pictured with Grand Master McPhail are brothers Mike and Tony Horsfall, his very first black belts.

Grand Master McPhail asked Dave for his memories of that day….

“I was the assistant instructor at Mark Rounthwaite’s City club at the time and also studying graphic design at design school. You and I were chatting and you asked if I would be interested in taking some TKD promotional photos. A classmate of mine and a martial arts enthusiast, Harvey Chan had a bit more experience than I in photography and we decided it would be a great project for us both to be involved in.

Harvey took a good range of photos that day at Lloyd Elsmore Park whilst I art directed. It was in the days well before digital photography so we were pretty nervous as to how the photos would turn out. We developed the film in our class darkroom and printed test strips for some final images to be selected from. We practiced our ‘dodging’ and ‘burning’ skills on the selected images which was great training for us. We were very pleased with the final results.

Pretty sure we used black and white film as we weren’t developing colour images at design school back then. It’s strange thinking back to those days when you had no idea what photos you’d get until they were developed.

The only other thing I remember from that day was that Harvey kept telling me he was really impressed with the height you were getting on the kicks and I also recall you ended up in a fair bit of pain from all of the jumping over the course of a few hours! I guess we needed to get as many shots as we could to ensure there were a few goodies in there, especially given we were still learning. A great experience for us and a fun day.”

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