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Pastimes : Digital Photography
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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (4272)12/27/2002 12:09:08 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 21662
 
a piece of off-white velvet for use as a backdrop, too.

FWIW, my version of the Christmas cactus was done in situ on the dining room table with a deep burgundy napkin draped over a knife and held up as a backdrop, all handheld and all just whatever light nature was giving me. There was a second blossom in the shot, which I deleted, and a hot spot in the backdrop which I toned down.

As for the black, I grew up in photography under the influence of the likes of Wesson ... all B&W, of course. One of the principles of the zone system was that somewhere in the picture there should usually be a pure saturated black and a pure white .... but "somewhere" doesn't mean 50% as a general rule.
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