Re: Proper Exposure ( wasRe: Ricky's Kung Fu Pose)

[Paul Stenquist]

The Ansel rules for that combo would be to place the Indian skin at 
zone four or five, depending on how dark you wanted it to appear. You 
would then ignore everything else in the image and expose for that 
value. It's really quite simple.
Paul
On Oct 22, 2004, at 8:16 PM, Caveman wrote:

Yeah sure. Last time I went through B&W stuff it was APX 400 pushed to 
1600, lighting 1 table lamp, subject indian complexion skin. What are 
the Ansel rules for this combo ?

William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Caveman"
Subject: Re: Proper Exposure ( wasRe: Ricky's Kung Fu Pose)
I also suspect that there are about 36 frames on Frank's films all 
with different subjects and light conditions.

So would you guys please refrain from over recommending this Ansel 
thing. It was good for what it was designed for i.e. tuning 
individual sheets of B&W film.
The principals of the Zone system can easily be applied to roll film 
users. Some negs will always fall outside the range of any 
generalized exposure development strategy, which is the best you can 
hope for with roll film, but applying a sound scientific methodology 
(the Zone system, as an example) to exposure and development will 
yield a higher rate of success than the more common shoot, pray and 
swear at the lab when it fucks up method.
William Robb