Photography : Zone System + Ansel Adam Project

Credit to Hidayah

 The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.

We also learned about exposure metering, and how to determine the correct exposure using judgment, rather than relying on our DSLR, which usually sets everything to zone 5. An averaging meter cannot distinguish between a subject of uniform luminance and one that consists of light and dark elements.

Ansel Adams.

Some helpful graphics which we were instructed to refer to, and to put in our portfolio.

For our exercise assignment, we were told to photograph 3 sets/pairs of photos. Each pair to have its exposure determined by the DSLR, then by us. The 3 sets had to be of the light zone, middle zone, and dark zone. We used the 9-step zone scale. This is what I came up with.

For the second part of the assignment, we were told to take 3 photos of any subject showing what we had learnt from the zone system. We were encouraged to conduct this during our class trip to Tioman over the weekend.

We had to get the original photographs printed with a white border of 5mm, in monochrome, saved as RAW/JPEG with a colour format of RGB, in full frame format, on 5x7" photograph paper at Applied Imaging.

 

pictures that were taken by my classmate hidayah.. 

i've lost mine.. 

-.-'