On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> I'm on another photo forum where someone posted a couple of pictures, asking >> for advice on how to expose them properly. He did use the flash for fill, >> outside, with a compact digital point and shoot. Once it was determined >> what camera he was shooting with people stopped suggesting speedlights, and >> concentrated more on things like, have the model (who is black by the way) >> take off her baseball cap, and various suggestions for reflectors to use for >> fill. Then, today, someone posts: >> >> I just want to point you to Ansel Adams' Zone system. It's a great basic >> theory of exposure that can be summed up with expose for the shadows and >> develop for the highlights. > > Over-simplified, incomplete understanding of AA's Zone System practice.
And developing for the highlights is probably not very applicable to a digital point and shoot, as most people using them probably don't develop their own film. > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
