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Well I feel a little better about my difficulty exposing, but I like the colors and don't see a reason to switch. For portraits I'd switch to Portra instead I'm sure or black and white. Bracketing sounds cool. It's hard to forget how expensive this is, though.
Peter, I did that with Velvia when I shot 135 (a few years ago) and now I'll do it again. You're right, better to focus on the technical stuff than jump straight to trying to get good shots and losing them to bad technique, as I have been. It's very frustrating. I'll go out and shoot some bad photos and take careful notes.
Jeffrey, I don't really have any interest in taking photographs except for those under low contrast light because prints are not too high contrast and HDR seems tacky to me unless done well. (I know the zone system is HDR, but it's done well I guess!) Everything I shoot is nature with overcast lighting or first or last light or with the sky in frame during a breaking storm. I found the trend toward images that look good in thumbnails (HDR, near/far, UWA, lens baby style focus, etc.) very tacky because the sense of depth is lost when printed large. To me the "stuck in customs" photographs are hideous eyesores. What I want to do is to isolate areas with patterns or texture leaving out a specific subject entirely and using medium/long lenses so space feels natural (135mm, 210mm, hopefully adding a 300mm+ soon) and then print them large so that you are lost in the texture and the composition is abstract and the subject somewhat arbitrary. Almost like wallpaper. This is not a popular style, nor one I am any good at, but I like limitations so I'm going with one film stock, two aspect ratios, and one style for now, and it being unpopular makes me unusual and me being bad at it gives me something toward which to strive.
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