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 06:14 AM 9/27/99 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote: >At the heart of the "zone system" is the idea of "previsualization" of a >scene that you are photographing. From a technical perspective, not only >does it require an understanding of exposure and development of the >negative, but how to match that negative to a particular type of paper you >will be printing it on. Not really. Ansel Adams had a devil of a time convincing people that he grew out of this stage early on and for many years even used multi-grade paper with multiple filters and exposures to get the print just right. And pre-visualization is redundant. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch "The "C" students run the world." - Harry S. Truman