Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If I had models on my backdrop is sure did not bracket. I shot a bracketed test and brought it in two a two hour E6 processor and then shot the same emulsion of Fujichome later when the models came in all at the indicated by test f stop. Which I most cases would have been the one I'd have gone with anyway. When you bracket models the shot you love will always be done at the wrong f stop. That's a rule. On 9/22/15 12:37 AM, "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>wrote: > >> back in the day: >> growing up in a commercial photo studio: >> primarily shooting 8x10, 5x7 and 4x5 chromes >> all the brackets were in 1/3 stops > >> 1/3 under >> 1/3 over >> and dead on > >> That's what was done on every single studio shot. >> Insured 3 usable exposures >> with subtly nuanced differences in the shadows and highlights. > >> a note off the iPad, George > ============================================================================== > In my career at the university, we didn't have the budgets of a commercial > operation, and our clients > (other departments or art students) were in the same boat, so I had to do > without bracketing for the most > part - we had to be stingy on supplies. From 1980 on I bulk loaded all our > B&W and slide film except for > Kodachrome, and got very intimate with my Sekonic L-28 and Minolta spot > meter, especially for > transparencies (mainly 35mm, with some 4x5). > > I know this wouldn't have worked in the "real world', but it's what we had > to do. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/