In this series of articles I try to discuss some aspects of mastering the craft of photography and get that out of the way, in order to enable photographers to concentrate on the more important creative aspects.
I am not saying that a non-technical approach will not work, for some types of photography it is the only way and I think that’s great.
I am looking at a photographic equivalent of the technical process behind the craft of artists like, let’s say masters in painting, without attempting one second to imply that mastering such a process will by default enable you to come even close to their artistic value. But without technical prowess you will not be able to reach into all the depths of any technical artistic craft or art form.
… You could push that a little, but that would have an impact on grain and grey scale, in real life an ISO of 400 or even 360 was the preferred setting for normal work with Tri-X.
In this case I knew I would have to push the sensitivity of film to its limits to get usable results, but that was a problem to be solved later in the dark room …
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