Quote Originally Posted by Leigh View Post
You're not going to capture twelve stops of range on normal b&w film regardless of how you expose it.

Black is black, as the song says.

- Leigh
That's where you can use the Fred Picker trick, double exposure, to solve the problem of sun filtering through trees. He explained how he did that on Millerton, New York, 1970

When a cloud covered the sun, he shot the scene with leafy areas on Zone IV. Then he exlained... "When the sun dapples reappeared, I made a meter reading of a nearby sunlit leaf and placed that value on Zone VII."

I could have used those sun dapples today, as it was generally foggy when I was out shooting. Sun did come out later, but that trick wouldn't have been practical. For Fred Picker's trick, you need partly cloudy.