Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>wrote: >back in the day: >growing up in a commercial photo studio: >primarily shooting 8x10, 5x7 and 4x5 chromes >all the brackets were in 1/3 stops >1/3 under >1/3 over >and dead on >That's what was done on every single studio shot. >Insured 3 usable exposures >with subtly nuanced differences in the shadows and highlights. >a note off the iPad, George ============================================================================== In my career at the university, we didn't have the budgets of a commercial operation, and our clients (other departments or art students) were in the same boat, so I had to do without bracketing for the most part - we had to be stingy on supplies. From 1980 on I bulk loaded all our B&W and slide film except for Kodachrome, and got very intimate with my Sekonic L-28 and Minolta spot meter, especially for transparencies (mainly 35mm, with some 4x5). I know this wouldn't have worked in the "real world', but it's what we had to do. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt