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Title: The Practical Zone System: For Film and Digital Photography Author(s): Chris Johnson Pages: 256 Publisher: Focal Publication date: 2006 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 0240807561 ISBN-13: Description: From Publishers Weekly
California photographercollege teacher Johnson was a friend and follower of the late Ansel Adams, whose development of the "zone system" for black-and-white film exposure and processing was a major contribution to American photographic art. The author here undertakes instruction in that system without "highly technical explanations that confuse." Clearly and logically, with illustrations and helpful diagrams, he tells how to "pre-visualize" a picture and explains zone system requirements of contrast control, using a zone scale of gray areas linking the subject to shutter-speed and exposure choices, and similar analysis of elements in a scene to be coordinated with later developing and printing. A basic photography primer and glossary of terms are appended for reference. This is a job well done, but as is perhaps inevitable, the subject remains complicated.
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Review
Praise for previous editions: "The Practical Zone System is one of the easier books to understand on the zone system for better black-and-white photographs... Its takes the complex issues of the zone system and removes the calcualtions and just gives you what you need to know."--The Midwest Book Review "I have found this new book on the zone system to be one of the best I have seen so far, and as an added bonus, it is even easy to understand..." - Apogee Photo Magazine Nov. 2006 Diagrams and illustrations show readers how to previsualize a picture and master the Zone System requirements of contrast control. It explores use of the system in digital photography.-PC Photo, February 2007 The book includes testing methods, test results for 10 major films in Kodak's XTOL developers, an overview of color photography, a listing of Internet resources for professional and fine art photographers, a primer on basic photography, and examples of how commercial photographers use the Zone System in their work.-Studio Photography, February 2007
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Product Details
* Paperback: 256 pages
* Publisher: Focal Press; 4th edition (September 29, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0240807561
* ISBN-13: 978-0240807560
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