Digital BW, The Print

True.  However, judging from his own efforts, Ansel's experience was
very light on the 35mm side. Another kettle of soup, so to speak.

Those of his students who shot 35mm (many of them) mounted them on
tripods, generally aped large format using D23 and slow films like
Adox KB14, wishing they had view cameras.

 In other words, he totally missed the boat on the virtues of
developers like Rodinal, fast films, flash, color, grain, and small
cameras in and of themselves. I suspect he'd have hated the French
impressionists if he lived in those days (almost did).

HOWEVER, something few know about Ansel: He was a decent industrial
photographer and a very good portrait photographer, his portraits
sometimes rivaled those of executive portrait specialists in Berkeley
and San Francisco.


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> Ansel said that any developer is usable as long as you dilute it right.
> Or something like that. Sounds good though.
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> ³it¹s not the developer it¹s the the water²
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> No that was Coors beer.
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> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
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