Mafud wrote:
> Adams had 1)
> resources that let him stay on site for weeks, giving him the opportunity to
> shoot sheet after sheet of film at his chosen target. 2) Adams had gobs of
> ~time~ to perfect his craft on site, dumping the miscues and bad exposures.
> I've heard a wag say: "Following him (Adams) around would have been
> lucrative, just by recovering the silver out of all that film."
> HCB probably did the same, his "spontaneity" probably overplayed by his
> devotees. 3) Adams (and HCB) were masters over the easel
Some of this isn't even remotely true. Adams had to do commercial work into
his _seventies_ to make ends meet, and HCB almost never went into a darkroom
in his life--he claimed to be allergic to developer. Hardly a "master over
the easel."
--Mike
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