Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I certainly concede that it's possible to place the highlights where you want them through reducing exposure to tame very bright highlights. It's just not a very good idea, because reducing exposure for the highlights also, of course, reduces it for the midtones and shadows, and you will get a negative that is too thin and has no detail in the shadows. I'm sure you're right that it's done all the time by a heck of a lot of people, but that, surely, is not the criterion for this, or just about anything else. > On 3/1/07 8:05 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> typed: > >> This is an oddly contrarian view of exposure and development of B&W film. >> You use exposure to get the detail you need in the shadows of a B&W >> negative >> and then you vary either negative development (the zone system) or paper >> contrast to have the highlights print as you want them. Getting the >> highlights "right on the money" through correct exposure doesn't make any >> sense for negative film (it does, of course, for slide film -- and >> digital). >> The highlights in the final print are controlled by the print exposure, >> not >> the negative exposure. >> >> > Well placing the highlights through exposure is certainly possible and > done > every minute and I'd check into it do some searches its the way > photography > is practiced by a heck of a lot of people anonymous or quite well known. > Zone system or just winging it. Its not a cult thing its the way most > people > I think do it if they just don't guess at a mid tone or set it on A or P. > People aim at a face and open up one. > The fact that this flies in the face of "the rule" of photography is what > makes it very confusing and the most confused thing I've run into on > photography. There are a few more but this ones I think's the king. > > > > Mark Rabiner > 8A/109s > New York, NY > > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >