Digital BW, The Print

On 6/4/05 12:17 AM, "James Irelan" <james@...> typed:

> , I liked Oriental Seagull,
> 
> excellent
> 
>   and Fred Picker's
> Zone VI papers.
> 
> Fred Picker was a shitty photographer and an arrogant asshole.
> Unbelievably bad compositions.  Good printer and really good at
> marketing himself. Really, really, really bad eye.  Other than those
> couple of things, ok, though.  Zone VI?  No where near as good as
> Seagull.
> 
> James
> 
> 
I thought half the stuff he said and did was bad but the other half was real
good.
The modified Pentax zone system meter seemed real good. I think it became
kind of a classic!
The idea of using a one step up as in use an Schneider Componon 80 instead
of a 50 to print 35 was pretty cool. I still pretty much do that in less the
prints are too big.

I thought his two step zone system method was pretty good and ahead of it¹s
time.
1. expose for zone VIII
2. click the shudder.

I do that except I go for Zone VII.

His white camera bag seemed like a cool idea.
Ugly. But cool! :)

He was good at picking stuff.
And shooting white picket fences.
His book I just looked at at Powells last week and his shots didn't look all
that bad.

Give me Ilford Multigrade anyday though.


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/