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W/NW Contre-jour, where are you now?


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"But why so many fishing pictures? What is about fishing and back lighting? Strange!"

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I think it's cause that's the only way you'll be able to see the fishing line. Used to great effect in <i>A River Runs Through It</i>. Oh, the poetry of fly fishing! (Yawn!)

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Harvey. I love the work of James Ravilious who was a great exponent of contra-jour photography. You are ideally kitted out to emulate his style because his favoured equipment was a Leica M3 with screw-M mount convertor and old pre-war uncoated Elmars (with his own customised Leica hoods to reduce flare).

 

Check out 'An English eye' or 'Down the deep lanes' or 'A corner of England' all by James Ravilious.

 

He also used a light yellow filter and Tri-X exposed at 200 or 250.

 

You will especially like his work because most of it (for 25 years) was centred around North Devon and its small farming communities. For the Beaford archive.)

 

One example .....

 

http://www.england-in-particular.info/images/orchard/ravilious.jpg

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