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Those who do not show their work have a reason.

Consider the circumstance: you know that ISO 100 film is more sensitive than Ilford Multigrade paper. You may even know by what factors. How you learned to gauge the exposure for paper also applies to film. If your darkroom prints are exposed for 8 to 20 seconds, what would you guess the exposure would be for an ISO 100 film? Certainly not the same time. Film is much more sensitive than paper. You could determine a relationship between the film and the paper used in your darkroom.

The standard light has been a mark of lab experience for more than 70 years.

Direct questions deserve direct answers.

Direct answer: The exposure is 5 seconds at 3 footcandle at the film plane.

Answers which involve much handwaving are smoke screens… cover ups.

As one form of claiming power, of having influence among the Hobby Snobby Forums, you gain points by being obtuse in your answers. The more complicated the answer, the less likely you will have to demonstrate the answer. Hobbyists are filling idle time. They don’t need the answer; if they did, they could test their system, learning the answer specific to their methods and tools.

What would be useful is teaching them how to setup, configure and use their specifics. That can be done using Web2 features. Not interested. The last group I taught has grown onto their own studios… Ask them how.

Key point: learn how to question the answers given. This will free you to find your answers to your questions.

Crumpled Fur

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Wes Anderson..

I went over to YT to get a different dose of how and about. Cinema since the start of “art house” theaters has been ground for thoughtful conversations — thoughtful since they produce thought. Work that gives some answers, as it leaves room for your challenge

The question WHY, not HOW. Questions begin the same; with the same question. First questions are the place most hobbyists remain.

easy to watch… An about the manners not the means of cinema.

In the timeframe of this post, an exhibit: Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, opened in San Francisco, followed, a week later, by the Chelsea opening. Discussion of that show decants the skill of the online community; separating them into the category of their attention -what can they understand.

The various camps of training, study given, inherent ability have always kept () apart. I use (), in this instance, as a designator looking for a word, or perhaps, a phrase which provides a handle without limits for the words ” novice, amateur, dilettante, professional accomplished”

I am writing, I should say making endless notes, about the levels, stages, distinctions among those who do something without apparent reward; why do they gain skill, how and what skill do they gain, or lack. And why the obvious answer: they learn from others, is incomplete. Badly so.