Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guy Bennett jotted down the following: > Liked very much your "Winter in Columbus," particularly the vertical vs > horizontal organization of the composition, and the near/far juxtaposition. > There are also some nice visual "echos" (the arches of the bridge and the > inverted arches of the hanging chain of the fence; the blocks of the > buildings in the distance and the heavy posts of the fence in the > foreground), and some interesting textures (the smooth snow and the rough > rocks/clunky chain links). Wow. I managed all that? ;) > What camera/lens combo did you use? How about film? How did you meter, with > all that bright snow around? Voigtländer Bessa-L, 25mm Skopar. Metered with a Sekonic 308B-II in incident mode, exposure probably around 1/250 at f/8 or f/11, but I never record that stuff. Shot on Agfa AP250 movie stock, developed for 15.5 min @ 72F in Rodinal 1:100, printed on Ilford Multigrade IV RC Pearl, toned for 10 minutes in 1:10 selenium and HCA solution. Scanned on an Epson Expression 1600 scanner, B&W points set and unsharp mask applied in Photoshop 5.5, and viewed on a monitor of your choice! I could probably cut down on the flare if I'd bothered to burn in the sky a little more with a softer filter. Thanks for your comments: I appreciate them a lot. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | It's not who you are, it's who email: howard.390@osu.edu | you know that counts. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------