Several years before the Cambodian government sanitized Angkor Wat and built a wooden boardwalk throughout the ruins along with elevated platforms for selfies, I visited the famous archeological site with my film camera, the Mamiya RZ 67. It was 1996 and there were perhaps a dozen people milling about the ancient buildings. Today, at sunrise, there can be as many as a thousand people vying for the best photo location. Through my local guide, I hired four dancers to pose for me among the ruins. I like photographing dancers because they always have beautiful clothes, they are usually very attractive, and they pose elegantly for the camera. This is the most famous doorway in the ruins. All of the fallen rocks that made an interesting foreground have now been cleared and replaced by, as I said, an elevated platform for selfies. When shooting with the medium format film camera, I determined exposure with a hand held Sekonic light meter. It's hard to believe there was a time when we actually had to wait until we got home and developed the film to see whether or not our exposures were correct. The pictures had to be exposed perfectly or else they were no good.
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