On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny. Actually, with film it was usually more appropriate to expose for the > highlights and process for the shadows. Although that too is an > oversimplification of the zone system.
That depends on whether you're exposing on negative or positive emulsions, Paul. - On positives, you expose to capture the highlights. Process is only modifiable in very small ways, you live with what the film gives you. - On negatives, you expose to capture the shadows. Process is very flexible to keep highlights from blocking up. None of which has much to do with the Zone System at all, IMO. The basis of the Zone System is to understand the recording medium and the metering apparatus, break the tonal range into ten zones, use the metering apparatus to find and locate the zones in a given scene, and make exposures with a plan as to how to achieve what tonal mapping you want through both the exposure you make and subsequent processing operations. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
