On 8/29/05, Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beautiful.
You flatter me. I've always enjoyed your balance of contrast and tonality. Again, thank you very much. > Care to share with us how you expose your film? Yikes! Technical questions! Well, I always do it manually, if that's a help. Even with my LX, I rarely rely on aperture priority. When I'm walking around with my camera, I usually point the camera at something that I figure is about as bright as I anticipate my subject to be, and adjust from there. As a fun little game, I try to guess what the exposure will be before I meter, and I'm rarely off by more than a stop. A neutral wall or sidewalk or something that I figure is not far off from 18% grey usually suffices. I then simply adjust one or two stops up or down, depending if I've moved into (or will be pointing into) bright sun or shadows, as the case may be. I'm constantly readjusting as I walk along, constantly checking the meter to confirm that my exposure is okay, so if something comes up that interests me, I'm ready to go. It's all very off-the-cuff and sort of informal, but it seems to work for me. In fact (not to blow my own horn), my developer says that the exposure of my rolls tend to be pretty consistent, which is (to his mind) almost as important as getting it perfect. If you can't get it perfect, at least be consistent. If you know, how > your lab processes and prints your photographs would be nice as well. That, I have no idea of. I bring Robert my rolls and say, "develop this". I used to get contacts, but now I just get the negs. I look at them, and what I want printed, I say "print this." I don't even have to say "8x10, full frame, black rebate, pearl paper", because he knows... <g> > Thanks for sharing, Frank. Yer welcome. And, thanks again. cheer, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
