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

[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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