Buddha Statue through camera lens

I had an indispensable opportunity to participate in the lecture hold by Mr. Kyosuke Sasaki who is famous for extraordinary technology in shooting Buddha Statue reinforced by his long experience as a professional Nara National museum stuff member. His lecture course was held at Mainichi Culture Center at Umeda Osaka this afternoon, it was a precious time for me. He explained so precisely as I desire about specific technology with some big objects as high as 10m. I imagined that it must have been required, a tall stepladder and hi-position lighting equipment, in order to keep the necessary shooting position and angle, and I was right at all. He also declared that the best care for keeping safety was the first, and he had no accident while shooting. The more impressive result, the more complaisant method conforming the theory if it is exaggerated. He is paying attention to the light source, it's direction, strength and composition. He also said, best care should be payed on the lighting of neck of the Statue, seperation of head and body by darkness is not recommended as a work of both Art and just recording. His work is firmly assisted by his long lasting history since Silver Salt Film period with large format shooting, though lighting method is improved and sophisticated.