I used to use the zone system (or at least a cut-down version of it I learned from some photo magazine or other) back when I did B&W film and did my own printing (early to mid 1980s). I recently rediscovered it, so I've been trying to fit it with digital -- it does seem to work pretty well.
*The* reference is the book, The Negative, by Ansel Adams, but you might also like to treat yourself to The Camera and The Print too, because the three make a series. All are superb. All don't even mention digital, of course, so it is interesting to see how the film techniques Adams perfected were just *so* much harder to get right than the tools we have available now.
The corrected image does look a bit livelier -- it might still need a bit more tweaking, of course, but it does bring out the surface detail of the spider pretty well.
By the way, doseybat remarked that she really liked the flower!
I doubt you'll regret it. All three talk about the zone system. The Camera also has a really good section on view cameras, which sold me on the idea to the extent that I'm intending to get hold of one.
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Date: 2006-06-18 05:03 pm (UTC)*The* reference is the book, The Negative, by Ansel Adams, but you might also like to treat yourself to The Camera and The Print too, because the three make a series. All are superb. All don't even mention digital, of course, so it is interesting to see how the film techniques Adams perfected were just *so* much harder to get right than the tools we have available now.
The corrected image does look a bit livelier -- it might still need a bit more tweaking, of course, but it does bring out the surface detail of the spider pretty well.
By the way,
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