Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philip. offered: >>>>Not a big Ansel Adam's fan then.<<< Naw by the time you do all that farting and fiddling around one sheet of film at a time I'd have spent three days in the middle of a war some place! :-) And home souping film. :-) Not to say I didn't like some of his wonderful technically correct photographs! A great rock & fern shooter no question! :-) >>>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.<<<< Well to each his own! :-) >>>> This is not an answer I wanted... looks like I shall be shooting for the "darkroom", flat low contrast raw files all round.<<<< As I said it's to each his own, but I'd much rather be shooting and traveling to new locations than spending any more time than I do before a computer screen, See I'm a photographer first, foremost and always! The techie stuff is secondary if you do it right at the crucial moment of the click in the camera! ! Dr. ted