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12- Zone System

Your camera’s metering modes are built to give you a correct reading under most average situations. But when you’re faced with an exceptional situation, your camera’s metering can easily be fooled, thinking a scene is brighter or darker than it actually is. This is where knowledge of the zone system can save you a lot of trouble, and help you capture not only correct but also intriguing exposures every time.

Although calculations for the zone system were originally based on black and white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black and white and color, negative and reversal, and even to digital photography.

The Zone System’s Key Concepts
The zone system divides a scene into 10 zones on the tonal scale (though there are variations of 9 and 11 zones). Every tonal range is assigned a zone. Every zone differs from the one before it by 1 stop, and from the one following it by 1 stop. So every zone change equals 1 stop difference. Zones are identified by roman numbers, with the middle tone (with 18% reflectance) being a zone V which is zone 5.
Photographers, usually are only concerned with zones III through VII (zones 3 through 7). The darkest part of a scene would fall into zone III, while the brightest part of a scene would fall into zone VII. Anything darker than zone III would render as pure black with no detail (under-exposed), while anything brighter than zone VII would render as pure white with no detail (over-exposed).
If you point your camera at an area with average reflectance and obtain the correct meter readings (a zero on the light meter), that area would be rendered as average. If you open up your lens or slow down your shutter speed by one stop, that area will become over-exposed by one stop. If you close down your lens or increase your shutter speed by one stop, that area will become under-exposed by one stop.
Now, we’ve agreed that an average tone is naturally placed into zone V. If you over-expose it by one stop, you’ll be placing it in zone VI (zone 6), causing it to render brighter than it actually is. If you under-expose it by one stop, you’ll be placing it in zone IV (zone 4) causing it to render darker than it actually is.
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The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in 1939–1940. The technique is based on the late 19th century sensitometry studies of Hurter and Driffield. The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results.

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Zone Scale
0 Pure black

I Near black, with slight tonality but no texture

II Textured black; the darkest part of the image in which slight detail is recorded

III Average dark materials and low values showing adequate texture

IV Average dark foliage, dark stone, or landscape shadows

V Middle gray: clear north sky; dark skin, average weathered wood

VI Average Caucasian skin; light stone; shadows on snow in sunlit landscapes

VII Very light skin; shadows in snow with acute side lighting

VIII Lightest tone with texture: textured snow

IX Slight tone without texture; glaring snow

X Pure white: light sources and specular reflections

The relationship between the physical scene and the print is established by characteristics of the negative and the print. Exposure and development of the negative are usually determined so that a properly exposed negative will yield an acceptable print on a specific photographic paper.



12s Survey

All Grade 12s are required to complete this survey:

www.bced.gov.ca/sat_survey/access.htm
I will give you a special # assigned just for you.

There are 2 sections, after section 1, it will say thank-you + then there are a few more question.

12 Still Life

Texture, Glass, Metal Stil Life

You are to create three studio still life compositions using metal, glass and textured objects. Compose a series of photos for each object; include backgrounds, a table and covering, and use one or two lights. Be creative with your objects, consider the compositions, backgrounds, exposures, depth of field (you are the art director, photographer and technician). For each you are to set-up your lighting carefully. Try different lighting techniques to gain a greater understanding of lighting styles. Try to vary the lighting intensity to vary the depth of field. Brighter lights= more in focus. Remember compostition techniques and be creative to make your simple objects extraordinary!

Contact Sheet(s) and 3 Prints Due April 19 in your Portfolio.


Project Criteria

Define LFAS/Why Art Matters

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Spontaneous Combustion- Year End Show

It's that time of year... start getting your major piece together for the final show! YooHoo!!

Dates to Remember:

• May 8, 1-5 || Manditory Rehearsal Sunday ||
• May 9 & 10, afterschool 3-6 || Rehearsals || (only students working for the show being rehearsed have to be there)
• May 10 & 11, 7pm || SHOW TIME || (curtain call @6pm, door opens at 6:45pm) You must be there for both nights, either you will be in the audience for your piece, or you will assist the running of the show.

Year End Show Criteria

1. Plan/Music Selection
2. Contact Sheet
3. Edit, Organize & Manipulate Images
4. Final Projected Light Extravaganza
5. Critique

Official Spontaneous Combustion Criteria

Final Show Inspiration

What sort of visual compositions are used in Adele's Rolling in the Deep?
What sort of story/theme is communicated?

Post an inspiring music video for others to check out.
Comment on why you recommend this video. Mention visual elements that attracted you to it and how the images work with the music.