Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 19/12/99 5:50 am, Roy Feldman at royfel@hotmail.com wrote: > - ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roy Feldman <royfel@hotmail.com> > >> I have recently been revisiting the photos of Bill Brandt ,Ray Metzker and >> Michael Kenna. All 3 seem to have a look I would really like to try and >> duplicate. The highlights in the photos are a pure white, then a real drop >> in density with the shadows being dark but with detail discernable. The >> curve of the negative would be a long toe on the bottom then almost a >> straight shot upward. I'm guessing at setting the highlight at Zone 4 and >> over developing to increase contrast, but I would like some other >> suggestions. > oops-should have written Zone9, sorry Overexposed negs in soft (eg British) light printed on hard paper. That'll do it. Try exposing Tri-X at 200, metering for the darkest shadows, then developing N+1 in D76, then print on grade 3. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.cinematic.freeserve.co.uk music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk