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Browsing All Posts filed under »Zones«
(Really Hard) Lessons in Contrast Control
October 19, 2014
Use the Meter, Believe the Meter, Develop to the Meter. A few years ago, Bernard Hymmen and I went cat skiing in Steven’s Pass, out of Scenic, which is essentially where the largest avalanche disaster in U.S. History happened. It’s a little village made up of abandoned railway cars people use as ski cabins. It […]
A Zone System Example
May 12, 2014
Featured image was purposefully exposed to send these shadows “into the black.” There is one post on here that gets a least one hit a day. Lot’s of hits, no comments, go figure. It’s my post about B&W HDR. And I’m really glad that gets so many hits because I really spent a long time […]
Skunk Cabbage
May 3, 2014
B&W Portfolio Since I smashed the hell out of my 90mm lens, been playing with my macro, a lot. I’ve always found the curves of skunk cabbage to be very sensual. Also doing a lot of film testing and been playing with contrast a bit, moving zones around. Particularly playing with printing darker, lower contrast […]
Abstraction through Post Production
November 28, 2012
Absinthe Cosmos How time flies. A few years ago, well, several years ago now, I took a couple of rolls of film of a subject (and some digital too!). At the time I working on the film development phase of the Zone System, and the original subject matter only had about 1.5-2 zones of contrast. […]
Iconic Photos – Why They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Any More
November 4, 2012
The Million Monkey Problem My boss is quite a photographer, and even has a degree in graphic design. So at lunch the other day, where I consider it bad form to discuss work, I asked him about photography. He said some thing very interesting. He said “digital photography has allowed the average person to take […]
Introducing B&W Film Photography Class
February 9, 2012
First, with my crazy 2 job schedule, I’m just not getting into the darkroom. Second, so many people have said they want to come over and work in the darkroom, but nobody ever does. Therefore, I decided I would teach a class. It would be 1x/week for 4 weeks. Then you can use the darkroom […]
Revisualization – Deviating from Style
June 8, 2011
I got sent on a last minute business trip to Singapore. Normally, no matter where I go I pack my entire medium format kit. But with time constraints, a 24 hour flight, and having to also take a laptop, I decided to take just the DSLR and two lenses: a 12-24mm zoom, and a 28-200mm […]
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April 10, 2015
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