Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, this page includes a few photos by James Ravilious: http://www.cannsdownpress.co.uk/darkroom.htm This one's particularly good fun: http://www.cannsdownpress.co.uk/d17.htm - --- Bob mailto:bob@web-options.com Wednesday, November 07, 2001, 1:10:07 PM, you wrote: > Bob, thanks for the book reference, one I must get. > I have a book of James Ravilious's photographs. "A corner of England" > North Devon landscapes and people. (Reprint 1996, Devon Books, > ISBN 0-86114-897-5). Again the pictures were taken with older lenses and > are very beautiful showing a way of life that is fast disappearing. Most are > black and white with a few in colour. Two of my favourites are a flock of geese > on the brow of a hill and an approching storm. Another book is "Down Devon's > deep lanes" (Beacham, P. Ravilious, J. ISBN: 1855227436, Devon Books). > A Google www.google.com search for "James Ravilious" gives many > references to publications where James's photographs of country life and > ways have been used for illustrations. > Bob Parsons bobp@dodo.demon.co.uk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Walkden" <bob@web-options.com> > <snip>> >> The pictures in James Ravilious' book "An English Eye" (1998, ISBN >> 1-85522-628-6) were taken almost exclusively with a Leica M3 and older >> lenses. The book includes a longish section (5 pages) on his tools and >> techniques, and demonstrate how using the M3 + VIOOH or Imarect, with >> uncoated Elmars and Hektors, in conjunction with the Zone System, help >> him to get precisely the effects he wants. His prints are very even and >> smooth in tone, very well suited to his subject, the Devon countryside >> and how people live there. It's a very, very beautiful book, little >> known. >> --- >> Bob >> mailto:bob@web-options.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html