Re: Leica M10 and M10-P: Stay way from ISO 100 in contrasty lighting
I watched several Ansel Adams episodes a couple months ago on our local tv as I found it interesting how his vision changed as years passed. I found them online if you have time to watch:
"Art does not reproduce the visible. Rather, it makes visible. The artist can give many interpretations as possible as he is able to perceive. They all depend on his point of view."
In the videos, he was measuring the lightest and darkest areas of the composition area with lightmeter and made calculations to run the film exposure longer/shorter. He was mentioning touch ups in one of the portrait shot review as unethical... But he was doing the different processing/printing methods to change his prints, eg Moonrise, Hernandez image - an early print (left - exposure matches to the calculated time of the shot eg before sunset) versus a later print (right-looks like night) :
"He had to know his cameras, so he could quickly set them up to capture the image in focus when the moment arrived. He had to know his film, so he'd know just how to expose it, without using a light meter if necessary. He had to know his chemicals so he could create fine grain on his large format negative to give him the detail and contrast he wanted. He had to understand the colors in front of him so he'd know which filter to use to darken the blues, or bring out the detail in the greens when transformed into black and white.
In the darkroom, once Adams had developed his negatives, he would return to them over and over again to create the image he'd envisioned."
Jun 01, 2021 at 04:24 PM
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