Bob Shell wrote: >On Mar 21, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> There's a great shot of Clyde Butcher standing waist-deep in swamp >> water with a large view camera: http://www.clydebutcher.com/ > >Yeah, I always worry that ol' Clyde is gonna get chomped by a gator >one of these days. He's fearless!
I've been a big Clyde Butcher fan ever since reading his biography "Seeing the Light" many years ago. Then a couple of years back, Pop Photo did an article on four large format B&W photographers who could be the next Ansel Adams and Clyde was one of them. Pop Photo asked each of them about their metering/exposure techniques and three of them said they use the zone system exclusively. Clyde said he just goes by the sunny 16 rule. That sealed it! Clyde Butcher is my hero (for attitude as much as anything)! Whenever I'm back in Rochester, besides visiting the George Eastman House, I always stop in at Rowe Photo-Video-Audio. In each of their two audio demo rooms they have a 4' x 5' Clyde Butcher print :) (And yes, that's 4 x 5 *feet*)
