You got all the quotes and stuff mixed up. I have pointed out in the text below what I did and didn't write.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 May 2005 20:47 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Understanding exposure? Recommendations? > > Perhaps you are rigth, Bob. > I really have been talking to myself. You have certainly not > been listening: > > I wrote: > The first lesson in exposure could very well be this: > Photograph a black door - use the built-in meter default settings. > Photograph a white door - use the built-in meter default settings. > You'll end up with two IDENTICAL images: Two grey doors! > When you figure out why, then you know the first and most > important thing about exposure! > > Bob answered: > > > So what, you captured all the details, just use Photoshop > and make the > > door white or black. I didn't wrote that. Someone else did. > > And Bob, you have at least twice stated that knowlede/skills > as to how to expose properly only is important to people who > want to be good printers: > > >"Yes - those things are important for people who want to go on to > >become > good > >printers. But you have to be able to walk before you can run." I did not say it is *only* important to them, and to them alone. You are reading things into it that aren't there. > I have several times stated, that proper exposure has nothing > to do with pinting. Exposure is exposure. > > In my point of view, Mikey asks about exposure. A lot of us > come with sincere and hopefully helpful anwsers. > And Bob demestrates his contempt for the subject by stating > that either it's not important (unless you want to be a good > printer) - or - that you can just fix it in Photoshop. > > I can understand why you are not listening. > Who wants to be confronted with having said things like this? You are misattributing things to me that I didn't say, and misinterpreting things that I did say.
