Digital BW, The Print

lyonscox wrote:

>  SNIP from Larry,
>
> > a case for using ONE film, ONE developer, ONE set of lenses, for
> ones entire career as a black and white photographer. i read that
> brett weston was so familiar with his materials and had such an
> ability to gage light that he did not use an exposure meter and never
> made a test print in the dark room.>
>
> (have my doubts about the test print thing but won't speak as an
> expert there.  You BECOME that familiar with a product...which does
> support the statement by Larry and Harvey)
>
> Edward was more renown than Bret for knowing light AND doing things
> simply to show people were wrong about their conventions of light and
> photography.  Also BOTH of them used a NUMBER of Cameras and lens
> combinations.  Perhaps a better one lens/camera user example is of
> course Cartier-Bresson, or even Atget.
>
>
> .>of course in our situation technology is racing ahead and we are on
> the cutting edge. things change fast and
> we have to keep up>
>
> People don't always realize that the Weston's were also on the
> Cutting edge, since silver based paper as we commonly know it was
> introduced in the 20's (I may be a little off) and an influence for a
> mid-style/career shift for Edward to use the 'new' paper.
>
> Sincerely (& not trying to be a snoot)
> Cleavis

And to add to that, the zone system was invented by Ansel (and Edward Weston?)
to avoid wasting film and paper through trial and error (aka: guessing)....So we
are right back to where we started.  ;-)


Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC







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