Here’s the image from AA’s “The Negative” (see chapter two):
Mrs. Sigmund Stern, Atherton, California (c. 1927)
It’s taken with an orthochromatic glass plate, but I imagine a modern panchromatic film with a blue filter would have looked somewhat similar. The sky is lost (in a good way), and the blue-filled shadows are lovely. No Hutchings factor necessary.
Maybe AA asked Mrs. Stern to avoid looking directly at the camera because she had blue eyes. ;^)
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