Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 09:59 PM 9/26/99 -0700, Jim Brick wrote: > >If you > >think too long, the decisive moment will be gone. > > Yep, but my point is that people think the Zone System gets in the way. The > problem with that idea is that it's not sitting around calculating a bunch > of numbers that takes time.><Snip> People should see Ansel Adams description of how he got "moonrise" with no meter rushing out of his car by doing some quick luminance calculations in his head based on known luminances(the moon). When he flipped over his film holder to get a second shot it was gone. There is a great book on how he did many picture: "examples" or something like that. More inspiring to me than even that book is "Looking at Photographs" by John Szarkowski Mark Rabiner