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08/27/2005 06:46:35 PM · #1 |
I don;t know how many of you have looked through/read AA's books on photographic technique. His writings on exposure, the Zone System, etc are great. But - they're all for film shooting and printing. Does anyone know of any good published technical work of this sort for digital?
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08/27/2005 07:17:45 PM · #2 |
1. Open image in PS/CS
2. Goto Layers pallet and click on the circle at the bottom that is half black, half white.
3. Select Channel mixer
4. When the channel mixer box opens - click the monochrome box on the bottom left.
5. Raise your red Chanel to 160, your green channel to 190, and your blue channel lower to -200.
6. Those are starting points. Adjust until you get the effect you want.
Hope that helps
-SDW
Example: 
But looks better with a great landscape shot. This shot was of flat land, hill or mountains work better.
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08/27/2005 07:30:33 PM · #3 |
Scott: While that action will help in making Ansel-like landscapes, it really doesn't help to explain how the zone system works philosophically, or the difference in applying it to positive-based digital rather than negative-based film.
Joe: Check out this article over at Luminous Landscape. It addresses the differences between using the zone system for slide film (positives) versus negatives. Be sure to read the notes on using the Zone System with slide film, and how you have to expose differently. Those differences apply to digital as well.
Perhaps bear_music is around and can chime in here. He once worked with Adams and did a wonderful job of explaining the zone system to me.
-Terry
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08/27/2005 07:33:56 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Scott: While that action will help in making Ansel-like landscapes, it really doesn't help to explain how the zone system works philosophically, or the difference in applying it to positive-based digital rather than negative-based film.
Joe: Check out this article over at Luminous Landscape. It addresses the differences between using the zone system for slide film (positives) versus negatives. Be sure to read the notes on using the Zone System with slide film, and how you have to expose differently. Those differences apply to digital as well.
Perhaps bear_music is around and can chime in here. He once worked with Adams and did a wonderful job of explaining the zone system to me.
-Terry |
Thanks for pointing that out Terry. I stand corrected, I guess I read every other word of his post and was way off base on his direct question. Sorry about that. Well maybe others that would like to try doing it digitally can take advantage of this technique. |
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08/27/2005 07:36:57 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by SDW65:
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Scott: While that action will help in making Ansel-like landscapes, it really doesn't help to explain how the zone system works philosophically, or the difference in applying it to positive-based digital rather than negative-based film.
Joe: Check out this article over at Luminous Landscape. It addresses the differences between using the zone system for slide film (positives) versus negatives. Be sure to read the notes on using the Zone System with slide film, and how you have to expose differently. Those differences apply to digital as well.
Perhaps bear_music is around and can chime in here. He once worked with Adams and did a wonderful job of explaining the zone system to me.
-Terry |
Thanks for pointing that out Terry. I stand corrected, I guess I read every other word of his post and was way off base on his direct question. Sorry about that. Well maybe others that would like to try doing it digitally can take advantage of this technique. |
No problem -- and I was serious When I said your suggested action was helpful. For landscapes, de-emphasizing the blue channel helps a lot, especially when going to black and white.
On the flip side, one of the advantages we have with digital over film is that digital processing allows us to apply the zone system to color in addition to black and white.
-Terry
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08/27/2005 07:50:30 PM · #6 |
This plugin is supposed to be a "digital zone system". Not very easy (for me, at least) to work with, though.
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08/27/2005 08:01:22 PM · #7 |
| This could be of some help too. |
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