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from shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com)
Ditto on Allan. The only thing which concerns me is the "high-key" and "happy" equation. A large number of my shots are "high-key", but they are far from happy. For example, one of my models and I decided to do a grungy shoot last weekend; I put her in tight black clothes, knowing I was going to purposely underexpose a little so the clothes/low-Zones would have no detail, and I developed fir about 25% more time. For lighting, I put my Metz up high and to the side of her while she posed on a couch. It was direct lighting. When I printed the best shot (it was actually an un-posed flicking-a-smoke-into-an-ashtray-while-looking-rather-self-involved kind of shot) I printed it with if I remember about 150c.c.'s of magenta and 25c.c.'s of yellow filtration; there was detail in the skin, but only a little. It was VERY high-key, and far from happy (though of course we we both 'happy' with the shot itself...)...
(posted 8817 days ago)

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