Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 7 - SlideOne
From: "John M. Sikes, Jr." <mcnaught@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:26:04 -0500

I think if you had given more exposure to the man on the left the one on the
right would have been overexposed. Good compromise, I think

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>From: "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 7 - SlideOne
>Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2002, 4:16 PM
>

> John:
>
>>http://slideone.com/PAW2002/week07.02.html
>>
>>http://slideone.com/PAW2002/week07alt.02.html
>
> I like the composition of your alternate better.  The parts of cars in the
> main one take away from the image for me.
>
>>Both Neopan 1600 shot w/ an M. I still cant seem to get enough shadow in the
>>alt shot. I exposed a stop over what the handheld meter told me and did 1:3
>>processing in Xtol. Will be trying out Delta 3200 at the next game maybe
>>with their DDX developer... I wonder if I'm expecting to much out of the
>>fast film...?
>
> I'd suggest staying with Neopan 1600 for a little while.  Stick with one
> film and experiment with it until you learn how to use it.  If you switch
> films one week, developers another week, and metering technique the third
> week, you'll have a hard time learning.
>
> By handheld meter, are you talking about a reflective or incidence meter?
> Which M do you have?  If you want to make sure you have shadow detail, you
> need to meter your shadows.  Use a reflective meter.  Meter a shadow that
> you want to have just a little detail.  Open up 3 stops.  Or 2 stops if you
> want it to have more detail.  Better yet, try both.  Make sure you're only
> reading the light reflected from the shadow area.
>
> What kind of meter did you use, and how did you use it?  Where did you point
> it?  What did it say?  What did you set on your camera?
>
>
> Eric
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