[Leica] Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

In one workshop, we were told to take portraits of other participants.  
One of them was a black high-school photography teacher who, I thought, 
had a really great eye.  She complained that she was turning white in 
the photos, so after class we had a discussion about the zone system, 
gray coal, gray snow and all that.  After that she got some excellent 
images and, although I didn't realize it at the time, this was with film 
biased toward white people (sorry, I can't seem to let this one go).

Ken


On 2/22/2015 6:14 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> In the sixties, when I was covering the marches, I wished my Spectra 
> incident meter would have had a brown hemisphere instead of white.
>
> from my iPad
>
> Sonny Carter
>
>> On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> I did notice it was the lead story in the business section, as opposed to 
>> art and leisure.  And then if you go to the photography section in the 
>> magazine ("A True Picture of Black Skin"), you will learn that "cameras 
>> and the mechanical tools of photography have rarely made it easy to 
>> photograph black skin".   But, one can work around these unfriendly 
>> tools, such as adjusting a light meter for black skin.  Another 
>> revelation was that film emulsions were calibrated for white skin, and 
>> thus don't work will with black, brown or red skin.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> On 2/21/2015 9:22 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
>>> Peter Lik
>>> ? is, as my father used to say, "laughing all the way to the bank." In my
>>> mind if you are IN Caesars Palace you ARE the joke.? But what do I know, 
>>> I
>>> am no Peter Lik, a man rich in confidence. Never heard of him till this
>>> article, though.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#
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