Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:30 AM 9/27/99 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >How was the technical quality of Adams' photojournalism? Better than most. His Manzanar books show he was pretty good with his 35mm and Rollei cameras technically. If not terribly inspired in content. Good, competent, but even he though Gene Smith was the master. (And his friend Dorthea Lang.) He was an artist, not a photojournalist, and he never pretended otherwise, though I have to give him credit for giving it a shot when he found a subject he was concerned about (U.S. Government putting it's own citizens of Japanese ancestry in concentration camps in the California desert). As for color, there is little one can do processing-wise. It's a different medium. People have come up with a Zone System for color. And what I have seen of it seems to create photos with long tonal ranges and horribly flat mid-tones. But the principles are the same - just more limited by having less control. Slide film: expose for the highlights. Check the shadows. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch "The "C" students run the world." - Harry S. Truman