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[OM] Re: Film photography of the greater kind

Subject: [OM] Re: Film photography of the greater kind
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:38:24 +0000
I went to see an exhibition in London a few years ago and I, too, was  
disappointed by some of the photographs.  But the ones I had always  
liked I really enjoyed seeing.

Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
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On 18 Dec 2005, at 07:06, Brian Swale wrote:

> OK, he was using the Zone System, but it seemed to me that he used  
> it too
> much to make a point and sometimes the overall impact of the image
> suffered in consequence. For example, the shot of Mt McKinley with  
> a lake
> in the foreground and a huge slice of black forest right across the  
> middle,
> would be much better if the black of the forest were not so black.  
> And there
> are others. One of my top favourites from the books, the deposit of  
> ice at the
> foot of a cliff beside a lake, disappointed me; the ice seemed  
> muddy and
> lacked luminosity. Maybe that is how it was.  The print of the  
> church at Taos
> was good to see in the flesh. What amazing architecture !!


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