Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/09
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My response to Ted's response to my response...
<<<<>They were also shooting B&W. Color has put new demands and strobe is
one of the requirements as part of the process.>>>>>>>>
Hi JG,
hell no mon ami! Light is light and it doesn't matter if you're shooting
colour or B&W! All you need to know is which light works for you and what
doesn't!<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Au contraire, mon cher!
You make it sound so simple.
Light is light? Film is film and color is color and B&W is B&W! Not to
mention the various output methods of putting them before a viewer.
I am judging as a pressphotographer who has worked in both mediums and has
to meet a deadline, has to get things right and fast, and color has totallt
rearranged the ballgame. How simple you make it sound, how marveloysly
aesthetic to go in to an assigment, 'feel' the light. Yeah right. In a
place where you have to balance FLOURESCENT, TUNGSTEN, and a TOUCH OF
DAYLIGHT. Yes, just feel the light, the art of it all. No, mon ami, you go
in with BLITZ and you use your technigue there instead. Who said that using
strobe is crude or unartful, even in the fast lane of press photography?
Nikon had made some very impressive advances in how we can use fill flash
and make it look quite natural. Bravo for Leica for hopping on the
bandwagon in their own way!
Light may be light but films are different and are going to handle light
differently. Strobe is light. Strobe is even available light.
This joust can get heated unless we distinctly define the style and medium
for which we are shooting. The true, true beauty of a Leitz lens is using
natural light and color. NO DENYING. But try telling your photochief that
you needed to wait for the right light, the right setting, when you've been
sent in to photograph in a mall. Cameras and lenses get pictures. All
kinds. M's in the end are a tool. And the M's have been coming with a hot
shoe since the M4-2.
Ted added:
<<<<<<<<<<<<<There is beautiful light for colour: dawn, the twilight zone
after sunset,
the colored rays after a great storm, the evening lights of Paris or
Stockholm. The wild lights of the Ginza in Tokyo or the gorgeous light of
sun rise on Tahiti!
Or just off the water of where I live in beautiful Victoria, BC
Canada.:)<<<<<<<<
It's nice you have this luxury for painting with light. Most photographers
in the workaday world just don't. So, again, if we are going to joust here
we all need to define the mediums.....
<<<<And do you know what.........strobe has no bearing when you know how to
use
the actual everyday light of the world! :)<<<<<<
You shoot chromes for a hospital? Ever handled the horrors of flourescent
either with strobe or CC filter? Maybe I should shut the lights off, open
the windows in the middle of an operation, tell the doctors to stop their
work, and move so I can get just that proper shaft of God's light while the
patient dies.
So again, if we are going to joust here, let's define the mediums.
JG
PS I attached a later correction my original statement which read ''and
strobe is MORE OFTEN THAN NOT one of the requirements...''
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