the "just for fun" are the most important. they are the ones where you can experiment and try things just to see what happens. with large format, just about every shot is a money shot. that and the limited range of focal lengths available forces a lot of conservative shooting techniques.
i said once that if you had film with 10 stops dynamic range, you could shoot a lot of great landscape and nature shots at high noon on a sunny day and was thoroughly ridiculed for it. now that i have a set of Photoshop filters for automatically layering exposures, i have been shooting 6 stop scales for a total range of 10-11 stops on my digital cameras and taking pictures of deep shadow to full sunlight. it opens a lot of possibilities of getting good landscape and nature shots in the middle of the day. the limitations of slide film have forced landscape and photographers into early morning/evening, and overcast day photographers. there are a whole lot of other days in the year too. gotta think out of the box. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 8:24 AM Subject: Re: Show and Tell - AF 50mm f1.7... > Cory, it is funny you should say that actually! I was going to post > yesterday, when Herb etc were debating about PDML'ers who don't shoot enough > etc. Currently,I shoot about 20-30 rolls per week. Of this, 1-2 is "just > for fun", 15-20 are for work, > and on average, I would shoot at least 2-3 rolls per week of my kids!! VERY > expensive indeed.
