chapter seven 
An Overview of the Zone System
This chapter briefly summarizes the Zone System method of exposure and development and answers a number of questions students usually ask at this point in the process.
What you have learned is that when the subject being photographed is flat or contrasty, you need to control the contrast of your negatives.
Here are the general steps for producing consistently printable negatives:
[Step 1]
Previsualize your subject in terms of the finished print. This means that you should mentally assign a zone to the important textured shadow and highlight areas of the subject.
FIGURE 7.1 Previsualization. ...
Get The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography, 5th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
