[Leica] Re: Ansel Adams and digital

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams)]

Last year I went to the Alton Brown(Good Eats TV Show) book signing here in 
New Orleans. I set my D3 to high speed since one of his assistants was going 
to take the shot. Alton made fun of me for setting it at 11fps, he said 
Ansel Adams would never approve! I said, "yes he would since I wanted to 
know I got the shot".

http://zoeicaimages.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TCB"
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams and digital


> Indeed. I was just flipping through 'The Negative' again and AA suggests 
> doing a
> polaroid before exposing a negative, instead of taking two negatives, 
> developing
> one in the lab, and then developing the second according to the first. The 
> funny
> thing is that my D300 has more or less devolved to doing this job. When 
> I'm
> trying to be 'serious' and shooting MF I put my D300 on the tripod first. 
> I like
> to shoot a lot of low and night things, so exposures can vary pretty 
> wildly. The
> D300 gives me an LCD and a histogram to read to get an idea of what's what 
> with
> shadows and highlights, just like a polaroid.
>
> The other funny thing in 'The Negative' that I ran across was the closest 
> thing
> you'll ever to an AA 'rant.' It was something like, 'I am categorized as a
> realistic photographer, but great care and effort is needed to make an 
> image a
> viewer will perceive as natural' which I took as AA's very gentle way of 
> saying,
> 'You know, folks, I didn't just happen upon some dogwood blossoms and pull 
> out my
> point and shoot, that thing too some flamin WORK!'
>
> TCB