Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: ><Snip> > But just as playing scales will never get applause at Carnegie Hall, > well-exposed boring pictures are still boring pictures. > > Eric Welch A decision that Ansel Adams made at one point when he had to decide between being a concert pianist or a photographer... "Technique" is what you are going to get with a classical music background. We photographers can really do quite OK with lot of bracketing and our intuitions coming from long experience and luck. But technique is how I think of it that makes it easier. You play scales so you can forget about them. Many of us have a personal Technique which do not involve the word "zone" that works for us. I had to personalize Ansel Adams and Arnold Gassans Zone system to become my zone system. Those two did not agree. Gassons was a modern refinement. In Color Neg you have a whole different scale that you've got to work up for yourself. A Color transparency Scale is so brief you couldn't even call it pentatonic (Just the black keys). He He! Mark Rabiner