Hi all,
I just remembered.
A week or so back I visited the great new $50 million art gallery that opened
recently in Christchurch, and went into the Very Expensive international
showing of old Masters that had been borrowed from Melbourne and Dunedin
(admission was free - it is the paintings that are nearly priceless).
The exhibition was apparently of seminal paintings that influenced painters
by showing how light could be used. Maybe it is old hat to me; I wasn't
impressed at all by the paintings, but I could see the message of one or two
in respect of light.
HOWEVER.
There was a very important-looking chap there with a tripod and a C*n*n
digital, carefully copying some of the canvasses.
No flash. Low light. Even light.
And I realised then that it probably didn't matter at all how long the
exposures took, since there would be no reciprocity failure / shift to
compensate for. So it was all very low-key and matter-of-fact photography for
him. Just quietly frame, focus and get on with it.
Brian
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