Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 21, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak 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. Yup. Same for most of my "editorial" and "personal - fine art work." Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist