Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > Philip Clarke offered: > > > > >>> I cannot decide, should one shoot for the darkroom or shoot for a >>> > > straight print ? <<<<<<<< > Yes, started in mono on regional newspapers. <snip> > In other words what you get the moment the digi cam shutter goes click! Is > what you see in print. Yep and in the film/print darkroom the same > philosophy applied for 50 years. Then I went digital and exactly the same > method of shooting a "souping" still applies! > Not a big Ansel Adam's fan then. I've been thinking (again), when I had a high contrast night scene, (lots of balloons doing a tethered night glow to music), then I shot on 400 pulled to 100 and then developed in rodinal, because that was the only way of getting what was on the scene onto a neg, since the contrast between the lit balloon, the people on the ground lit by ambient, the burning flames shooting up (till was a sod to burn in). But that was shooting so that the most realistic scene was appearing on the neg, so I had to go to a lot of trouble and use my darkroom knowledge to get what I had seen recorded. This is not an answer I wanted... looks like I shall be shooting for the "darkroom", flat low contrast raw files all round. Philip.