Tan; The beginning of wisdom is when you realize wisdom is not how much you know, but realizing how much you don't know.
A funny story (now) about photographers who couldn't expose a negative properly: In the early 90's I was working for a lab that had a local wedding photographer as a customer. Allison had gone to a seminar somewhere that told her that the proper way to meter was to take a reading off one's palm and open up 1 stop. Allison was ghost white. She used to shoot Kodak Vericolor (VPS). You may be too young to remember VPS. It was Kodak's professional low contrast wedding/portrait film. VPS had a well deserved reputation for having absolutely no tolerance for under exposure. Most photographers rated it at ISO 80 or 100 (it was a 160 speed film). Her film was constantly underexposed 1½-2 stops. (and we used to run our c-41 a little hot to boot) We would develop and print her order and she would return half the order or more asking us to kick up the colors a bit. I even suggested one time that she take her camera. dress her kids in white, expose a couple of rolls, bracketing heavily, we would process that film for free so she could get a working E.I. that would give her negs that could be printed well. But since the metering technique was from her photographic guru at the time it had to be right, so she never took us up on it. Luckily for us she moved out of the area, as we lost $ every time she walked in. It's the glass half empty or half full syndrome. We see all we have yet to accomplish often missing how far we have already come. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
