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

Hmmmm, what about calibrated development times to achieve N-2, N-1, N, N+1 and N+2 ranges in the negative?

too much clipping!

With the Lumix GX9 I bought recently, I just shoot in L Monochrome D for B&W and RAW (in case I needed colour later). Very easy.

12:59 – where can I find this option in photoshop cc ? can anyone give me the path ?

Nice discussion but… really?? Your "abbreviated zone system" is the standard system built into photo editors?

I've seen (a lot !) of videos on editing photography and this one is def in my top five. Thanks for those awesome tips ! I'll never look at a locker the same way again 😊🙏🌈

Very useful video. Thank you 🙏

Mark, I have very good experience with your videos and your cognitive quality, so I venture to consult you if you have a workflow suggestion for me to try to replicate the content of this video in Photoshop exclusively (without resorting to Camera Raw, whose operations are similar to Lightroom)

Excellent tips, just entering in black and white photography.

I just had flashbacks from when I went to Photo school in Daytona Beach Photography School.  We had to study The Zone System for 6 Mos. but of course when I went there we had to shoot using 4×5 view cameras

I am glad to hear others applying the principals of Zone System to digital photography. The Zone System Ansel Adams explained was not about getting high contrast images. It was about control in order to serve creativity and to be able to anticipate how tools, light, film, paper, chemicals, temperature, and time could be manipulated to bring into the concrete what begins in the imagination. Adams wanted to take the guess work out photography. If he wanted to reduce contrast, hold shadow or highlight detail, etc., he used his system. He was brilliant technically as he was creatively.

Adams' original prints were not very high contrast. Most of the high contrast stuff of his that you see now were reprinted by him in the 1960s and 1970s. He chose more contrast as he got older.

Thank you for this video.. Brilliant. I am really going to practice this technique from now on.

Thank you fot this video. It is what I really needed to go further. These are small tips extremely important end usefull but one cannot find easily and quickly alone.

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.

I really like the photograph of the lock, that's the sort of shot I prefer to do on film.

hello sir, how to make dslr pictures look like film??
thank you.

Great skills. but to be honest, I don't think the super contrasty image is better than the original plain BW version.

Thanks for this…fantastic

Just seeing this now, and I am LOVING all the tips! Makes so much sense and I'm putting it to use as we speak!