[pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POP with paper negs?
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:38:27 +0100
To me, there is one basic rule in photography and any other craft.
'You can't argue with success'
Mortensen did great work, so he is worthwhile studying. AA did great work,
so the same counts for his techniques. However, be aware that Mortensen and
AA couldn't even agree on the time of day.
That just shows you, if you have found a way that works for you, stick to
it. Nevertheless, we should be open to try other approaches, because they
might be, at least partially, applicable to our own work or make thinks
easier.
For this discussion, I like to clarify that when talking about highlights, I
don't refer to the brightest specular highlights in the print. I'm talking
about the lightest image dominating areas. In a female portrait this is the
brightest part of the lit side of the face (Zone VII or brighter). In a
waterfall or snow picture it might be (Zone VIII). In a low key image, it
might be much darker.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 12/17/04 12:39 AM, "richard l. gifford" <rlgif@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Ralph W. Lambrecht
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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