Ray McSavaney

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Ray McSavaney

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====Effective interpretation====
====Effective interpretation====
With skills honed in the Tire Factory and Bunker Hill projects, McSavaney tackled the challenging Southwest pueblo ruins with as much of an eye to dramatizing as to portraying them. By now, he was a proficient mature professional photographer, fully confident that he could capture any scene, regardless of whatever technical difficulties it may present. His knowledge of materials, gained through rigorous testing and experimentation, allowed him to confidently tackle subjects that would "defeat a lesser craftsman".
McSavaney photographed the challenging Southwest pueblo ruins with as much of an eye to dramatizing as to portraying them. By now, he was a photographer, confident that he could capture any scene, regardless of whatever technical difficulties it may present. His knowledge of materials, gained through rigorous testing and experimentation, allowed him to confidently subjects that would "defeat a lesser craftsman".
In addition to their luminance extremes, the ruins held dark regions of very flat contrast. So, how to handle a subject, part of which is in deep shadow, part in bright sunlight, and in between dark patches of no contrast, regions that he somehow had to open? ''No hay problema!'' For most of his Southwest photographs, besides having to compress wide luminance ranges, he simultaneously had to drastically expand parts of many images — a very difficult technical exposure situation.McSavaney 1992 -Tech Info
In addition to their luminance extremes, the ruins held dark regions of very flat contrast. For most of his Southwest photographs, besides having to compress wide luminance ranges, he simultaneously had to drastically expand parts of many images — a very difficult technical exposure situation.McSavaney 1992 -Tech Info


[[File:Southwest Ruin.jpg|thumb|280 px|Anasazi ruin, Cedar Mesa
by ''Ray McSavaney, 1989'']]
[[File:Southwest Ruin.jpg|thumb|280 px|Anasazi ruin, Cedar Mesa
by ''Ray McSavaney, 1989'']]
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