How the fuck did they know how to make an image as beautiful as this without having a preview or viewfinder? The old masters of photography were imagining their kino...
>>4474905They relied on their skill, experience, and vision. Something you can still do even with a digital camera.
>>4474905Trial and error. First guy realised ISO 0.5 film takes longer than a few seconds to expose. Guess and improve until you get a ballpark feel for most things. If you tape over your light meter, and expose exclusively at any one ISO (100/200/400/800) and you'll go through the same process and eventually you won't need it.It's one step above zone metering which also relies on you to understand light values and expected EV, but goes further and expects you to understand your medium (the film).
>>4474923Have you ever shot film or made a print in your life bro? What the FUCK are you talking about?
>>4474925what? hes spot on
>>4474905a lot of trial and error. they just shot exposure brackets and kept the best result. you wouldnt believe how much trash all the famous photogs produce
>>4474905Knowing how to expose properly is the easiest part of photography
>>4474905>How the fuck did they know how to make an image as beautiful as this without having a preview or viewfinder?Take multiple images, changing ISO, aperture, exposure time, position, angle, etc.You will have so many duplicates of the image with slight variations, but there will at least be one that looks good.
>>4474925You okay?
