[Leica] Zeiss Planar T and no beer

Mark Rabiner mark at rabinergroup.com
Mon Sep 21 21:49:43 PDT 2015


If I had models on my backdrop is sure did not bracket. I shot a bracketed
test and brought it in two a two hour E6 processor and then shot the same
emulsion of Fujichome later when the models came in all at the indicated by
test f stop. Which I most cases would have been the one I'd have gone with
anyway. When you bracket models the shot you love will always be done at the
wrong f stop. That's a rule.


On 9/22/15 12:37 AM, "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>wrote:
> 
>> back in the day:
>> growing up in a commercial photo studio:
>> primarily shooting 8x10, 5x7 and 4x5 chromes
>> all the brackets were in 1/3 stops
> 
>> 1/3 under
>> 1/3 over
>> and dead on
> 
>> That's what was done on every single studio shot.
>> Insured 3 usable exposures
>> with subtly nuanced differences in the shadows and highlights.
> 
>> a note off the iPad, George
> ==============================================================================
> In my career at the university, we didn't have the budgets of a commercial
> operation, and our clients
> (other departments or art students) were in the same boat, so I had to do
> without  bracketing for the most
> part - we had to be stingy on supplies. From 1980 on I bulk loaded all our
> B&W and slide film except for
> Kodachrome, and got very intimate with my Sekonic L-28 and Minolta spot
> meter, especially for
> transparencies (mainly 35mm, with some 4x5).
> 
> I know this wouldn't have worked in the "real world', but it's what we had
> to do.




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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
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