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Sam Reeves wrote: > > ======================================================= > -> This is The 'SPORRS' Mailing List > -> Info File: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/infosporrs.htm > -> Note: Remember to include your name in each list post or reply. > -> Please delete all unnecessary quoted text from the original message! > ======================================================= > > David R. Busse wrote: > > > Which film is the best for crummy weather? > > Black & White. Don't bother wasting your slides on crummy days! > > Sam > I have shot less than a dozen rolls of b&w film since 1974 and regretted every frame of it. I don't drive a Packard, don't watch a Muntz TV, don't take a streetcar to work, don't use a Speed Graphic camera, etc. I just don't like shooting b&w, period. True, there is some "art" in b&w, but it neither turns me on nor fires me up about going out and doing it. Remember, some people call graffiti "art"... That's why I asked for some professional advice on which of the E-6 stocks seem to perform better in "marginal" light. And I have many examples of "killer" slides that have been "wasted" on crummy days, in this kind of light. They are not 50mm wedgies, and the film "sees" colors and details there that would have been lost in "perfect" weather. I even did a slide show at Alta-Mont a few years back on "nobody should be shooting in weather like this..." 17 years ago I flew up to the Yukon Territory, in October, to shoot the White Pass & Yukon Route...the "real" WP&YR, with mixed trains and everything else, while it was still a "real" freight hauler. I had exactly five minutes of sun the week I was there. Neverthless, I shot with what I had to work with...composed differently, etc. All Kodachrome 64. I can't even begin to count how many of the stunning color shots from this trip have been published; all shot on days when others would have whined, shot b&w or stayed back at the Red Garter in Skagway and washed their problems away... Personally, I use the heck out of PKL in low light/bad weather. Great film. Just wanted some input on how the others may be doing the same thing...and again, I recognize that the numbers of fans shooting in this kind of challenging light are small... --David R. Busse Diamond Bar, Calif. ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
