From: Larry Colen
I'm on another photo forum where someone posted a couple of pictures,
asking for advice on how to expose them properly. He did use the
flash for fill, outside, with a compact digital point and shoot.
Once it was determined what camera he was shooting with people
stopped suggesting speedlights, and concentrated more on things like,
have the model (who is black by the way) take off her baseball cap,
and various suggestions for reflectors to use for fill. Then, today,
someone posts:
I just want to point you to Ansel Adams' Zone system. It's a great
basic theory of exposure that can be summed up with expose for the
shadows and develop for the highlights.
One of the classes I was in at the convention, the presenter said you
can basically map the histogram to the zone system. It was unfortunately
one of the things that came up BEFORE I figured out I could just
photograph the powerpoint slides, so he had gone on to the next slide
before I got the whole correlation written down in my notes.
But, what I did get:
"Zero on the histogram is 0 on the Zone system,
026 is Zone I,
128 is zone V,
255 is zone X.
Shoot to place the wedding gown in Zone IX, Caucasian skin in Zone VI or
VII"
It was, of course, a wedding photography presentation. He had some other
good stuff I think I can use, because he made it very simple.
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