rmalarz wrote:
The method is anything but complex. The meter, as any except one that I know of, reads Zone V. How many Zones above that do I wish to place the metered part of the scene? Simply change the exposure by that many stops. That, to any reasonable person, would seem very straightforward and simple.
In case you didn't recognize that technique, it's The Zone System applied to digital. Meter for the brighter parts of the scene and process for the darker parts, which by way of exposure will be a bit higher in values than need be.
In this case, if the clouds had been brighter, I might have pushed this a 1/2-1 stop more.
--Bob
The method is anything but complex. The meter, as ... (
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This is not the Zone System applied to digital.
The Zone System, as devised by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer, and as further elaborated by Fred Picker,
Minor White, and others, starts with
a visualization of the final image.
Then you pick a camera, lens, etc. and an exposure that allows you to produce a final image that matches your
visualiation. (So of couse, it also matters how you plan to display the image. )
So to use the Zone System, you need to know the DR of
both your camera and the final image medium
(regular photo paper, platinum paper, cyanotype, plain paper and inkjet, laser printer, photo-lithograph,
silk screen--whatever). These media all have different DRs as well as different reflectivity or luminosity.
(They also differ in many other ways that will affect your visualization but not necessarily exposure: size,
aspect ratio, resolution, sharpness, gradation, reflectivity or luminosity, color reproduction capability. etc.)
We do not live in a world where all photographs exist only as images on identical computer monitors. The
sooner we all realize this, the better.