Time spent behind the camera is just phenomenally important.
It's like anything. The sharpness, clarity, and color rendition of the new generation of Kodak film is astonishing. These new films, in particular E200, have become the mainstay films for my assignment work. He also had 30,000 watt seconds of strobe and a professional motion-picture lighting crew brought in to light the shoot. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad, but it's always different.