Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations?

[pnstenquist]

Graywolf expounded:
> My suggestion to folks who think like that is to look through a bunch of Life 
> or 
> Look magazines from the 50's or earlier. Those photos were all taken without 
> any 
> of those camera features. 
> 
My dad retouched many of the copper plates from which the four color images 
were printed.  He was a color photo engraver at Lakeside Press in Chicago, 
which produced Time, Life and Look. His fingers were stained from working with 
acid all day and his eyes were worn out from focusing on tiny details. We had a 
light box at home. Sometimes dad would bring home 8x10 transparencies to show 
me things of interest. Once in a while he'd show me the printed shot alongside 
the transparency so I could see how he had changed the color of a garment or 
removed a bit of trash from a lush green lawn. I'll never forget the rich 
beauty and exquisite detail of those big transparencies.
Paul