[pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POP with paper negs?
- From: "richard l. gifford" <rlgif@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:39:26 -0600
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.
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> 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
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> Ralph W. Lambrecht
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> On 12/16/04 8:08 AM, "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>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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