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from Chris Yeager (cyeager@ix.netcom.com)
Electric guitar or acoustic? Mountain bike or road bike? Laptop or desktop? MF or 35? The answer, you need both. Don't try to do with one what the other is good at.... it sounds like you need a different approach to preparing your subjects for having MF pointed at them; you have to expect a different reaction, like, oh oh, I have to pose, this better be good..., have you ever used both in a session, for different moods or movements?

I live in Boston, went to the Weston extravaganza at the MFA there... They recreated his darkroom- an L shaped table. the wet side was three trays over a long tin sink, the dry side was a contact frame with a bare bulb hanging by its wire over it. There was a basic little egg-timer thing... if Weston needed less light per exposure, he raised the bulb using a clothespin on the wire. In the corner of the L however was a lab scale and all the dry powders for his pryo mixes, and his personally scrawled notes on the chemistry of a given session... When I get the the more equipment blues, I reach for my Weston books... Get your subject into a good mode for the format, then look at the light, look at the light, look at the light.

(posted 8725 days ago)

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