[pure-silver] Re: Need help with exposures-Dana--Peter-Paul& Mary

Let's see if I got this straight. The subject line says "need help with exposures".
Near as I can figure out lately, this list is trying to tell Janet that she needs to get a Brownie camera and guess at exposure like a man with Weston's experience would do. God forbid her "own reasons" might be to want to print some tone differently than it appeared in the scene, as she requested. So I guess we all just get tired of the subject and let the old myths live on about guesses not really being guesses if you have enough experience to guess correctly.
I guess that old dude named Adams didn't really have a clue when he suggested it might be possible to have some control over print tones if you had access to the information that only a spot meter can give you. Or when he said in The Negative, "Using an incident light meter omits entirely measurement of the actual reflected light that forms the image on film, and thus severely limits the opportunity to evaluate individual subject areas and apply controls to achieve a creative, visualized image." We seem to be trying to tell Janet this doesn't sound like her question answered by the master himself, and telling her an incident meter is just the ticket.
I'm really sorry I took up time and electrons here trying to point out the obvious to the unbelieving. There's nothing wrong with ordinary photos if that's what you want. Give Janet a break, she wants more than that. 

Regards...   Dick Gifford




Kent Gibbs wrote:


Here, here!!!

(Sorry about the earlier mouse misfire.)

----- Original Message ----
From: EJ Neilsen <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:38:30 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] RE: [pure-silver] Re: Need help with 
exposures-Dana--Peter-Paul& Mary
Finally, some simple talk without the chest thumping :) 

I stayed out of the light meter debate. How one handles the light in front
of him is all based upon ones own reasons. The only intelligent thing around
the camera and the film is the person making the exposure. With so many
choices and ways of interpreting data, any tool that you bring to the party
that works for you is all you need. EJ Neilsen 


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