>>4173062As a filmfag with a wet darkroom, no part of the process is without some form of editing or conscious decision that affects the final image. Getting the composition and initial image right merely facilitates the process. If anyone had actually read old Ansel's books, they'd know that straight photography is a response to something very different. The kind of shit that gets you banned from NatGeo.
If I had a graduated ND and good spot meter, I would have used it because dragging 12 stops on the negative kicking and screaming down to 5 on the paper is a special kind of hell that takes 4 manipulations and 2 contrast filters.
