Re: [Leica] Gree Leafe, late summer

["SonC \(Sonny Carter\)" <sonc@sonc.com>]

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From: "Chandos" <cmbrow@wm.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Gree Leafe, late summer


> Thanks for the comments, Ted, BD, and Michael:
>
> Actually Ted, what went through my mind after studying this scene
for about
> half an hour is that there isn't a film in the world that could
handle the
> contrast range (or at least no film that I know how to use) present
in the
> scene, that, if I exposed for the shadows, then the 'bride' (she's
actually
> a sorority girl dressed up for some event--not a wedding) would burn
beyond
> recognition, and that if I had a fill flash (and knew how to use
it), then
> I could set it off in the poor bugger at the bar's face, thereby
utterly
> destroying the shot and the mood--but it would've been a more
'balanced'
> exposure.
>
> I take the points about a vertical crop.  I exposed a sequence of
six
> frames, one of which was vertical--it looked too static and 'backy'
too me
> (I may have coined "backy" here--as in "no eye contact").  I had my
normal
> walk-about M4-P with 28/1.9 mounted on it--and got pretty much what
I
> previsualised--for all its weaknesses or strengths.
>
> If anyone has technical suggestions regarding alternate films
(T400CN here)
> or exposure techniques that might have worked here, then I'm all
ears.  I
> very much want to perfect a technique for working in this sort of
light.
>
> Chandos
>
> At 09:42 AM 06/03/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >I don't imagine you ran all the techie stuff through your head
making an
> >analytical assessment of light ratios, detail in shadows verses
highlights
> >and all that other stuff, expose for shadows develop for whatever
before
> >trippin' the shutter.
>
>
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