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)

Shutter Stories Magazine Launches

Shutter Stories Header

Tomasz Trzebiatowski has launched Shutter Stories Magazine, an online interview-based magazine.

Shutter Stories subtitle is “Where Photographers Talk” and talk they do, as the premiere issue has interviews with Jim Zuckerman, Noah Grey and Photocast Network pal Martin Bailey as the first interviews. The interviews themselves are short and easy-to-digest, but insightful and interesting and are, as you might expect, peppered with example images from each photographer.

Take a look!

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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