Using Zones for Black and White Photography: Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace: AdoramaTV




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Learn how to use zones of light to convert color photographs to stunning, high contrast, black and white images. In this episode Mark Wallace explains his abbreviated version of Ansel Adam’s Zone System. Mark explains the five zones of exposure and demonstrates how to manipulate them using Lightroom 5.

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Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 67: Lighting for Black and White Photography

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 41: Dynamic Range: Adorama Photography TV

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 33: Histograms: Adorama Photography TV

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 24: Understanding Stops: Adorama Photography TV

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36 responses to “Using Zones for Black and White Photography: Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace: AdoramaTV”

  1. In Truth, your 5 Zone system is best explained as the " Color Zone System ",

    Re-Invented by Sinar's own Hans Karl Koch… It became known as the Zone System

    for exposing Transparency Film, explained in Sinar's Bulletin # 40, ( I think it was 40 ).

    Unfortunately OOP, but the histograms on the backs of digital cameras were similar

    to the film H&D curves used to expose film.

  2. I just re-edited my last shoot which I did black and white. I was feeling a bit deflated about my first edits but after watching this video I like my shots again. Thanks a lot for the great tips 🙂

  3. awesome video! thank you! by the way, when i edit picture, how should i set my monitor's brightness? should i set it in the middle? or should i max my screen brightness? any other paramater on my screen i should adjust before editing a picture?

  4. I was going to watch a movie on Netflix, but then this video distracted me and got me all interested in playing around with some B&W photography again… also this ISN'T THE ZONE SYSTEM! Oh wait… never mind. Taught me a lot – thank you.

  5. Cool video.  Ha ha…somehow it seems a whole lot easier to just use my film camera to shoot B&W and just split filter print.  Just kidding!  I needed the Lightroom review.  Thanks 🙂

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