Teaching photography Ray McSavaney
ray mcsavaney, factory butte, utah, 1996, ken karagozian http://www.kenkaragozian.com even @ risk of running out of loaded film holders, made @ least 2 exposures. parenthetically, necessity of carrying bulky film holders (anachronisms in digital age) considerably eased when kodak s readyload packets became available. mcsavaney s spare negative insurance against defects , allowed him experiment altering tonalities in darkroom necessary printing. made polaroid print on spot decide on best exposure critical scenes. in pre-digital age, rare serious photographer ventured wilds of southwest without trusty polaroid 4x5 film-pack adapter , several boxes of film. (must read: ansel’s relationship edwin land , polaroid in ). many well-exposed polaroids in mcsavaney s archives. careful photographer, sparing no effort, final print in mind. practiced adams’ dictum, analogous orchestral music, negative merely score whereas print concert performance. in same vein, oliver gagliani, friend of ansel, ha...