Re: thoroughly confused now

[Bill Agee <billagee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:28:12 +0100 (WET DST), Bill Agee wrote:
>
>|all for infrared is perfect.  Twelve years of shooting infrared
>|conveniences me that one exposure will not work.  Infrared is not that
>|forgiving a film.
>
>And forty years of shooting IR convinces me that you're right about
>one exposure not fitting all situations but dead wrong if you think
>that White is advocating shooting everything the same way.  What she
>says, as Karen clearly stated, was that runing a test roll this way
>will give you a consistent benchmark against which to judge how you
>should be exposing for various situations.
>
>Others in this group have followed White's advice and evidently found
>it rewarding.  (I haven't tried it.)  But just as there are many
>developers one can use with HIE, and a change in developer may imply a
>change in printing technique or effective speed rating, so there are
>many ways to come to grips with the peculiarities of the HIE medium
>and each may imply a difference of approach.  White has one.  You have
>one.  You're both right to the extent that either method my prove
>effective if it corresponds well with the way a particular
>photographer approaches the craft.
>
>Bob Long
>(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

Well, excuse me!  I say this is a tough group.  Bob, I will certainly take
a deep bow to your forty years with my paultry twelve, however, I know what
I read.  Unless this thread has been going on for 40 years--I have only
been on the list a week or so--Karen, in a post entitled "thoroughly
confused now"--and I certainly am, said that White, who's book I have never
read, advocated exposing HIE at 1/125 at f 11.  I was responding to that
statement.  There was no additional qualifier about "runing a test roll
this way as it will give a consistant benchmark..."  That is new
information...maybe from White's book?

Sorry, Bob, I thought I was trying to help the lady. That's a congenital
problem after having taught the subject for a sometime now.   Obviously I
steped into the middle of a more elaborate conversation than I thought.  My
apologies to all who I offended...I think I'll keep my mouth shut for a
while and see what the local ground rules are here.  They seem a bit
different from other email forums that I've seen.

Karen, the information I gave you was used to take all the infrared photos
on my web site.  Anyone who cares to check them out is welcome.  I will let
my images speak for me.

Bill Agee

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