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The phone rang…and we got to spend the morning with Salman Rushdie”. The celebrated author just released his fourteenth novel…Quichotte, which was just added to the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize…and Elizabeth Winkler was interviewing him for the Weekend Confidential column.
Here’s a look at our time with Salman…
The first setup couldn’t be simpler…a single 5-foot parabolic umbrella flying high on a boom, a couple of layered backdrops (courtesy of Gravity Backdrops) and an old, beat up farm table…
Very classic and very contrasty…
For the second portrait, we went with a boomed, gridded, diffused 20″ Profoto Beauty Dish high and directly overhead, filled with another five-footer behind the camera…
Here’s how it looked…
Finally, I moved in tighter…
That was the one…..
Damn Ugly Photography 
Beauty!!!
Gorgeous.
So good. Thank you for sharing!