Friday, March 31, 2006
The Zone System Project
Fuck Ansel Adams. I hate that prick bastard. I am not a technical photographer. I' an intuative photographer. I am so lucking I got a B on this bitch. I won't even bore you with Babs remarks. Not that your boring Babs but these shots were not fun to make. On the flip side of things, I know how to do it and probably will calibrate my Crown Graphic now. These were shot on a Mamiya 1000DTL on Efke KB100 and printed on, who fucking cares. Also I've left one print off as it's flat, and while that never stopped me before, it just hurts to look at it.
# posted by Mike : 6:42 AM
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heh.
I was given a very basic walk through on darkroom techniques (think: "this is developer, stop and fix and there is the enlarger ... have fun!") and I got stuck in that trap - flat grey photographs and it stuck with me (been a tough habit to break). Fast forward many moons later when I finally have my own darkroom ...
I borrowed the Ansel series from the library and worked on calibrating everything, then I gave up *shrug* didn't see the point in trying learn the system when all I had was a 35mm camera, since part of his system deals with optimal negative development. I did walk away with at least one good thing about his system, learning where to put the middle grays.
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I was given a very basic walk through on darkroom techniques (think: "this is developer, stop and fix and there is the enlarger ... have fun!") and I got stuck in that trap - flat grey photographs and it stuck with me (been a tough habit to break). Fast forward many moons later when I finally have my own darkroom ...
I borrowed the Ansel series from the library and worked on calibrating everything, then I gave up *shrug* didn't see the point in trying learn the system when all I had was a 35mm camera, since part of his system deals with optimal negative development. I did walk away with at least one good thing about his system, learning where to put the middle grays.
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