Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 7/31/2011 4:44 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net>wrote: > >> Here is one more I made, trying to recall times where the temp was below >> 105. These are sand dunes in southern Utah, covered in snow, at >> sunset. It was definitely cold. Very cold. Rodenstock Sironar 210mm >> lens, TriX in D76 1:1. I have some large darkroom prints of this on >> Seagull, but if I print it digitally I think I'll get rid of the >> footprints. >> Ken >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/coral+dunes.jpg.html > =================================================================== > If you don't like the footprints, why did you take the photo? > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Alan, That is a very good question, and the answer is a story I have never told anyone before, but I will share it with the group now. I saw this scene as we were driving past the dunes at sunset, and immediately pulled over and set up my camera. Somehow, though, I had misplaced my spotmeter but fortunately remembered the luminescence of snow in late evening, which gave the key to the exposure. But there was far, far more. As I stood looking over this vista, wishing the footprints were not there, I had a vision of a time when photographs would not be made in the darkroom, and there would be tools of some kind that would allow us to reshape our pre-visualization of the scene. I know this sounds strange, but it appeared as a large "window" of some sort in the ice clouds. This led to a decision that I would leave my negatives to an institution where students would have undreamed-of technologies, and would be able to make better prints than I could. But the vision came true sooner than I would have ever thought. I thank God every day that I still have those LF negs of the St. Francis church with all the power lines. Ken