Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/21/02 9:33:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << It's not exactly a beginning class...but if you go to http://web.mit.edu/21W.749/www/syllabus.html >> This is definitely not beginners. The course has moved from the technical to the philisophical. It's a course I would love to take......after I learn about lighting and exposure and aperture and shutter speed and different kinds of films, after I can tell the difference between 35mm and medium format, after I can differentiate a rangefinder from an SLR from a TLR from a P&S and understand the strenghts and limitations of each one, after I can grasp the principles that govern shape and form and texture and color, after I learn about lightmeters and learn how to use them, after I master the tonal range and the zone system. Finally, I must first study some history, about Daguerreotypes and calotypes etc. about Brady and Stieglitz, Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke White and Henry Cartier Bresson before I will feel confident and competent enough to do a paper on Richards or Salgado. Dante - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html