Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's what the b+w image evokes in the viewer that matters, eh Mark? Not what the fellow standing next to the photographer sees while you're making your photograph. S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams and digital > You put a dark red or green filter on something, deep yellow even and your > interpretation of the shot is in your minds eye is certainly is not what > everybody else is seeing when they're standing next to you watching you > take > the photo or what they're probably getting in their Brownies. > AA's filtration was as often as not not all the subtle. > He's critised about that; by people who no doubt walk around feeling great > about how subtle they all are. > But it fits my tastes perfectly. As in black and white landscapes I tend > to > go for the gusto as well. > Realistic NOT I think as dramatic effect is possibility as most often the > intention. A shot that would knock your socks off. > All I ever asked from a picture... > Mine or what I'm looking at. > > The f64 ethic meant get it all in focus no fuzzy wuzzie pseudo art but it > didn't not mean having things look realistic. > Or look like they'd really look in a "straight" black and white shot. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: TCB <tcb@thadbrown.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:48:06 -0600 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams and digital >> >> Indeed. I was just flipping through 'The Negative' again and AA suggests >> doing >> a >> polaroid before exposing a negative, instead of taking two negatives, >> developing >> one in the lab, and then developing the second according to the first. >> The >> funny >> thing is that my D300 has more or less devolved to doing this job. When >> I'm >> trying to be 'serious' and shooting MF I put my D300 on the tripod first. >> I >> like >> to shoot a lot of low and night things, so exposures can vary pretty >> wildly. >> The >> D300 gives me an LCD and a histogram to read to get an idea of what's >> what >> with >> shadows and highlights, just like a polaroid. >> >> The other funny thing in 'The Negative' that I ran across was the closest >> thing >> you'll ever to an AA 'rant.' It was something like, 'I am categorized as >> a >> realistic photographer, but great care and effort is needed to make an >> image a >> viewer will perceive as natural' which I took as AA's very gentle way of >> saying, >> 'You know, folks, I didn't just happen upon some dogwood blossoms and >> pull out >> my >> point and shoot, that thing too some flamin WORK!' >> >> TCB >> >> On Tue 13/01/09 8:24 AM , Slobodan Dimitrov s.dimitrov@charter.net sent: >>> Couldn't agree with you more on this! >>> The very fact that he was instrumental in the development of PN55 at >>> Polaroid attests to the possibility. >>> I mean, who took Polaroid as a serious, and relevant, product at the >>> time? >>> sd >>> >>> On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:30 PM, TCB wrote: >>> >>>> AA had a deep, almost sensual understanding of >>> all of the > technology involved in >>>> making an image. I can't imagine he would be >>> resistant to any newer > tech >>>> available today, though I also can't imagine >>> he'd be locked into > any kind of pure >>>> digital rig. >>>> >>>> On Mon 12/01/09 11:05 PM , Nathan Wajsman photo@fr >>> ozenlight.eu sent:>> I am certain he would. In his autobiography, >>> written shortly before>> his death in 1984, he comments on the then >>> revolutionary notion of>> digital photography and makes some very >>> positive statements about >> what >>>>> he imagines will be its possibilities. I >>> cannot find the exact>> reference at the moment, but it is in >>> there.>> >>>>> Nathan >>>>> >>>>> Nathan Wajsman >>>>> Alicante, Spain >>>>> http://www.frozenlight.euhttp://www.greatpix.euhttp:// >> >> www.nathanfoto.com>> Books: >> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&am >>> p;am>> p;y=0PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/pawsBlog:> >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Geoff >>> Hopkinson wrote:>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I believe that if AA was with us today, >>> he would>> be an avid > enthusiast for >>>>>> Photoshop as his darkroom. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> _______________________________________________>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>> more>> information >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>> information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>> information >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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