I agree he sure isn't lazy. But b&w film exposure isn't that tough really, if you do it. The Sunny 16 rule really does work well for starters, and I bet this guys knows the zone system too. I go out with older rangefinders with broken meters all the time and I often guess the exposure using these basics rules. Try it sometime.
quote]BigJoe wrote: Lazy? That guy is putting more work into making a single image than most digital users would put into a hundred images.
In a way, light meters, automatic cameras and so on are the lazy way. We don't really have to think about exposure. Oh, that image is blown? Dial in some comp and re-take it. It costs us a few seconds. It costs him a day, a lot of work, and probably a good bit of money. The fact that this guy is basically guessing at exposure and manually blocking parts of the image to avoid blowout (with his hands!) and still getting images of that quality is pretty impressive to me. It's not conventional... it breaks the rules... but who cares? He's doing the work and he's the only one that has to enjoy it unless he's trying to sell them.
I can tell you - I far prefer the lazy way myself: DSLR's, autofocus, light metering, Lightroom for development. No way in hell I'm dragging that thing around and rolling stuff around in a giant pipe for development ...Show more →
