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Camera Position 45 : Back in the Zone

In this second part of the Zone System overview, we look at a few more specifics about how the Zone System works and is implemented. Don’t forget to download the PDF handouts!

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Black and White Film Curve Color Negative Curve

Color Transparency Curve Digital Capture Curve

8-Bit Image Data 16-Bit Data

Zone Scale & Histogram

The first part of the Zone System overview was in Camera Position #43

Download part 1 of the PDF handout (part 2 below)

Camera Position 44 : Photographer’s Bookshelf #3

This episode of Camera Position is the third entry in an irregular series of suggestions for the serious photographer’s bookshelf. This time, the selection is “On Photography,” an important – and occasionally somewhat difficult – book of photographic criticism and thought from writer Susan Sontag.

On Photography Cover image Steichen's Milk Bottles

Diagram of Plato's Cave

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Camera Position 43 : There’s Creativity in The Zone

Creative photography benefits from mastering technical content. This first installment of a discussion of The Zone System of exposure will help you stop worrying about whether the photograph will “work out” so you can concentrate on being creative.

Zone Scale

In the photographs below, the highlighted side of the ball (left image) was “placed” on Zone VIII and the under side of the fountain was “placed” on Zone III.

(photographs by Jeff Curto; click images for larger views)

Ball placed on Zone VIII Fountain placed on Zone III

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Photocast Network Roundtable Discussion

For something new and different, four members of the Photocast Network (www.photocastnetwork.com) gather to shed a light on photography from all sorts of different angles. When can I call myself a photographer? How to transition from film to digital? How do Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Lightroom compare? How to get the best pictures in low-light situations?

Featuring John Arnold (Photowalkthrough), Ibarionex Perello (The Candid Frame) Chris Marquardt (Tips from the Top Floor) and Jeff Curto.

Check out the Photocast Network Roundtable Discussion (link to post page)

Direct link to the .mp3 file

Camera Position 42 : Color Pioneers

Another exploration of color in photography and the way it has been used by two of the great masters of color, WIlliam Eggleston and Stephen Shore. Also, I mention Adobe’s fabulously fun and useful online application “Kuler.”

Photograph by William Eggleston Eggleston's photograph made gray
Photograph by William Eggleston (above)

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Photograph by Stephen Shore (below)
Photograph by Stephen Shore Photograph by Stephen Shore - made Gray
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