[pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POP with paper negs?

I should have added in my discussion of Mortensen and 
brilliance and  pivoting somewhere besides highlights - 
I'm not a people photographer.  Yes, I think the 
highlight side of the face would probably turn out to 
be my area of most interest.  And I can only imagine 
the result of flat lighting and expanding midtones.

Regards...  Dick Gifford

DarkroomMagic wrote:

> I just can't imagine a high-key image in which highlights are less important
> than midtones.
> 
> Even with portraits, I would still prefer an image with good highlights
> (probably the most lit side of the face), good open shadows and letting the
> medium skin tones fall in between, over one where the medium skin tones are
> theoretically perfect or 100% realistic, but the highlights are blown out or
> the shadows are dead.
> 
> The only exception to 'expose for the highlights and control the shadows
> with contrast', I can think of, are low-key images.
> 
> 
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> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> Ralph W. Lambrecht
> 
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> 
> On 12/16/04 8:08 AM, "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Highlights are much less important than midtones in many types of
>>images, including but not limited to portraits. Others are
>>commercial/product photos and many high key images like scenes in
>>heavy fog.
> 
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