If you could only...........

The actual enjoyment of a photograph is personal. What I took from the Ansel Adams books was how he went about to achieve a vision that he had in converting the view that he saw with his eyes into a print. Every component from viewpoint, lens, tilt & shift, preparation of the negative emulsion, etc, etc was all deliberate and could be explained.
 
Clive K said:
The actual enjoyment of a photograph is personal. What I took from the Ansel Adams books was how he went about to achieve a vision that he had in converting the view that he saw with his eyes into a print. Every component from viewpoint, lens, tilt & shift, preparation of the negative emulsion, etc, etc was all deliberate and could be explained.
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Indeed, certainly one of the best things for me was the way he was able to explain why he did things.
 
OK, OK I know I implied I wasn't going to post again in this thread, but in light of the two posts above: have you read Edward Weston's  Daybooks?
 
StephenM said:
OK, OK I know I implied I wasn't going to post again in this thread, but in light of the two posts above: have you read Edward Weston's  Daybooks?
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No, always meant to buy them, but haven't. I've always seen them as "required reading"

I have Flame of Recognition which has excerpts, and Ben Madows Biography, which also has excerpts, as does EW100: Centennial Essays in honor of Edward Weston, which I also have.
 
Name drop time - my second hand copy of Flame of Recognition was previous owned by Denis Healey (he put his name inside). Edward Weston has a notice on his bookcase "I do not loan my books to my friends as I do not wish to loose my books or my friends".
 
myotis said:
No, always meant to buy them, but haven't. I've always seen them as "required reading"
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I thought that it was available on internet archive, but it is only a few pages. The books are cheap enough though.
 
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It 's probably available to borrow. I have the paper version (can't remember offhand if it's in 2 vols). I read it/them on holiday years ago.
 
StephenM said:
Name drop time - my second hand copy of Flame of Recognition was previous owned by Denis Healey (he put his name inside). Edward Weston has a notice on his bookcase "I do not loan my books to my friends as I do not wish to loose my books or my friends".
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Was he known to have an interest in photography?

My name drop, which I've mentioned before, is that one of my copies of The Camera was signed by Ansel Adams when I met him in Edinburgh.

But as I was once involved in taking golfing publicity photographs for the Royal and Ancient and Gleneagles, I actually have a plethora of "name drop" examples :-).

Including the King of Norway volunteering to act as my "light switch" assistant when I was projecting golfing films at the R&A, and having a drink with Bing Crosby after taking publicity photographs of him playing golf at St Andrews.
 
Clive K said:
I thought that it was available on internet archive, but it is only a few pages. The books are cheap enough though.
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Yes, I know, at least they were the last time I looked at the price- this has made me think again about buying them.
 
Yes, he was a president of the Seaford Camera Club (Seaford is about 40 min drive from where I live), and many of his books found their way to a bookshop in Alfriston. He obviously liked Weston - there were many Weston related books. I bought the ones I didn't already have.
 
StephenM said:
Yes, he was a president of the Seaford Camera Club (Seaford is about 40 min drive from where I live), and many of his books found their way to a bookshop in Alfriston. He obviously liked Weston - there were many Weston related books. I bought the ones I didn't already have.
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While not important, there is something nice about having this sort of connection.
 
This is the kind of problem I am faced with,

Mixed up my D23 which is reportedly an improvement on D76/ID11.
My research has thrown up a couple of things, Kodak, when D23 was in production, recommended same development time for D23 as D76. The articles I have read suggest that D23 produced low contrast results, many knowledgeable articles suggest that D23 is less active than D76/ID11 due to the borax increasing activity so times cannot be the same can they? I see a lot of recommendations that development time should be increased by 20-30% which give 9-9.5 minutes approx, Pictoral planet recommends 10 mins for HP5.
My scenes a fairly high contrast and D23 is supposed to be compensating, I will err on the side of underdevelopment at 9 minutes so I don't blow the highlights which I hope that I have taken care of in exposure. We will see. I have to start somewhere with this combination.
 
Film has developed which I am very pleased about. :)

I might change my name to the soup meister for the rest of the evening.:p
 
myotis said:
Was he known to have an interest in photography?

My name drop, which I've mentioned before, is that one of my copies of The Camera was signed by Ansel Adams when I met him in Edinburgh.

But as I was once involved in taking golfing publicity photographs for the Royal and Ancient and Gleneagles, I actually have a plethora of "name drop" examples :).

Including the King of Norway volunteering to act as my "light switch" assistant when I was projecting golfing films at the R&A, and having a drink with Bing Crosby after taking publicity photographs of him playing golf at St Andrews.
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My name drop......

I have a book here titled ''Beccy & Lee - The first 10 years'' signed by a certain Lee Ratcliffe...... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

I doubt it's worth anything though :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Signed or not signed :)
 
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