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

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Likewise on the lifetime of zone system use like George.
The world is a diverse place filled with all kinds of people using cameras
to take millions of pictures of each other every single darned day on every
single continent.. The technology does not leave some of them behind because
of their skin shade or color. Its not like film sold less  somewhere because
of a certain peoples tricky skin color.
As far as a more serious approach with a light meter we look at any tone and
place at or plan where its going to fall or even use auto settings with
smart use of the override.
People come in all colors and shades but so do trees. So do rocks. So does
buildings. There is no problem photographing dark shades verses light
shades. You just place them where you want them to be in the print.

I can also say from another standpoint that I've photographed a fair amount
of weddings. Like over a hundred in 33 years.  The bride is wearing a long
shockingly white dress which has to retain texture and the groom is wearing
a black tuxedo and a white shirt. They are both in the same shot often.  It
could possible be said this to be a contrast problem.  A One Hour Photo shop
would not always be up for it so a pro wedding photographer delvers a
product which is at least a grade up from that. From snapshots.
For the people themselves  in the wedding wearing these clothes to have
faces of not all the same light hue is really no big deal in comparison but
in any case..  It was not a problem for my custom wedding printers or for me
when I started printing them.
It's all good. Photography is for everybody.


On 2/22/15 11:07 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> 
wrote:

> all those who learned, used, loved and continue to appreciate and use "The
> Zone System" simply smile through these threads.
> 
> a note off the iPad, George
> 
> On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:29 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Also see Montie's Kat Noir!
>> 
>> from my iPad
>> 
>> Sonny Carter
>> 
>>> On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> (See cat comment) ;-)
>>> 
>>> from my iPad
>>> 
>>> Sonny Carter
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Richard Man <richard at 
>>>> richardmanphoto.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Wouldn't it be just +1 stop?!
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
>>>>> 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-s
>>>>> ell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-
>>>>> column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#
>>>>>>> 
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