Using Zones for Black and White Photography: Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace: AdoramaTV

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Learn how to use zones of light to convert color photographs to stunning, high contrast, black and white images. In this episode Mark Wallace explains his abbreviated version of Ansel Adam's Zone System. Mark explains the five zones of exposure and demonstrates how to manipulate them using Lightroom 5.
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@YouDontTalkAboutFightClub 9 жыл бұрын

Mark always says so much in a way we all can follow and understand. Loved this episode on the zone system. I've always needed a simple and usable breakdown I could apply to my photography. Thanks Mark!

@michaelmcphee2930 3 жыл бұрын

Finally someone has put together a contemporary digital approximation of the Zone System. Thanks Mark

@jimblackie5476 6 жыл бұрын

This just transformed my B&W work from mediocre to outstanding. I can't thank you enough for helping me understand tones and the zone hack you devised!

@johnc3826 9 жыл бұрын

Once again, Mark, you have shown a new way to me to unlock the power and versatility of Lightroom. Your videos are the best! Thank you for taking the time to post these videos during your travels.

@cahayaislamic5066 11 ай бұрын

@GeofPowell 9 жыл бұрын

I learned some good tips for adjusting B&W shots in Lightroom.

@TVRDAFT 4 жыл бұрын

Ansel Adams zone system has always been brilliant to use. In the early 1900's he was the master.

@egolloher 7 жыл бұрын

Just seeing this now, and I am LOVING all the tips! Makes so much sense and I'm putting it to use as we speak!

@michaljesensky4201 8 жыл бұрын

Perfect explanation. Easy to follow and fun to watch. Mark's videos are my favorite.

@markcunningham8788 9 жыл бұрын

Really appreciated this video guys.. i love that no matte how much you use Lightroom, you learn different things and techniques frequently...thanks!

@gpdoyon 4 жыл бұрын

I loved all of your tips! Black and white with so much contrast and textures---amaaaaaazing!

@Adorama 9 жыл бұрын

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@AltonaBeach 4 жыл бұрын

I go back to when all my photography was all and only B&W. Maybe I will start all over again., Thank you, a great video.

@CloudKnife 7 жыл бұрын

I just re-edited my last shoot which I did black and white. I was feeling a bit deflated about my first edits but after watching this video I like my shots again. Thanks a lot for the great tips :)

@stefanhansen5882 3 жыл бұрын

This might be six years old, but I just found it, and I am glad I did. Thanks a lot!

@cyrille8693 6 жыл бұрын

I've seen (a lot !) of videos on editing photography and this one is def in my top five. Thanks for those awesome tips ! I'll never look at a locker the same way again 😊🙏🌈

@MacClellandMan 6 жыл бұрын

I am glad to hear others applying the principals of Zone System to digital photography. The Zone System Ansel Adams explained was not about getting high contrast images. It was about control in order to serve creativity and to be able to anticipate how tools, light, film, paper, chemicals, temperature, and time could be manipulated to bring into the concrete what begins in the imagination. Adams wanted to take the guess work out photography. If he wanted to reduce contrast, hold shadow or highlight detail, etc., he used his system. He was brilliant technically as he was creatively.

@chakibabi-saab9203 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video.. Brilliant. I am really going to practice this technique from now on.

@ChristopherWalrath 3 жыл бұрын

I really like this system. One thing to bear in mind. Make sure the photograph has all of the details you want in the final image. If a portion of the photo is washed out or blackened out, it will stay that way in post. Great video. Thanks.

@cutterjohnston5668 4 жыл бұрын

This an excellent LR video for a LR newbie working on a B&W video clip in After Effects and Premier. The B&W mograph has been taken up 10 notches. THANK YOU!

@hobbiesandfxtrading 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! Really helps me a lot as a beginner. More power Mark!

@heinzhagenbucher4714 9 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark. Thanks for this very helpful and interesting video. I'm looking forward to try it out soon. Have a great day.

@chetbowman6714 7 жыл бұрын

Great video, well explained and demonstrated. Very practical

@M123OCT Жыл бұрын

I am the perfect person on whom to road-test your video, simply because I am a beginner when it comes to manually adjusting a camera. And, after watching quite a few videos, I would say yours is the clearest. Even the tip about adjusting ISO last is really helpful. 👍 Cheers.

@HumbertoAbed 8 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial!! been watching lots of videos on how to convert to BnW and edit but yours is really great. Thank you

@katarzynabuksinska1305 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark, thank you so much for explaining black and white photography en Lightroom!!! After your class I definately know more :-) Thanks and have a great day!

@gewglesux 9 жыл бұрын

very detailed!! thanks for the upload!

@christophermason7735 19 күн бұрын

That was a really good video. You have given me some great ideas on how to process my B&W.

@JasonPatz 9 жыл бұрын

Great information. Clearly and concisely explained. Thank you Mark!

@BrotherBloat 9 жыл бұрын

excellent video as usual, Mark!

@jorgelvs30 8 жыл бұрын

Mark, Thanks for this great tutorial.

@johncharlesgray4913 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Just came across this 8 year old video and learned a great deal about enhancing b&w images. I found the luminosity section at the end particularly useful. Thanks!

@wolfharley1 4 жыл бұрын

This is just what I needed for education... thanks

@RichardHamilton79 8 жыл бұрын

Really helpful as a beginner Mark, thank you!

@CoryLievers 9 жыл бұрын

This is great, thanks. I'm going to try this on my next black & white conversion.

@johnkraemer5505 8 жыл бұрын

Very good overview! Thank you for sharing!

@brokenrohit2101 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent tips, just entering in black and white photography.

@rdauld 9 жыл бұрын

Excellent Mark. Just getting into B&W and this is really helpful !

@Adorama 9 жыл бұрын

rdauld Sounds great! Please let us know how it works out for you.

@ianpalmer6449 8 жыл бұрын

Simple, stunning, superb

@coyote7106 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you fot this video. It is what I really needed to go further. These are small tips extremely important end usefull but one cannot find easily and quickly alone.

@baharam98 Жыл бұрын

This video was great and extremely helpful. Thanks!

@sambarnett3820 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! So much knowledge.

@luishreyesbarrios84 9 жыл бұрын

Amazing simplification!

@JohnJohnson-bo5sv 11 ай бұрын

this is great! I am in a East Texas summer and so much of what I see is Harsh light and contrasty shadows. This gives me a new approach. I will look into the more detailed vids you mentioned. thanks

@KmalSadek 5 жыл бұрын

This is such an awesome video about B&W. Thanks much

@keddycheng8406 8 жыл бұрын

that was really helpful for me, thx for sharing!!!

@kochavigivoni5814 9 жыл бұрын

Mark, like always, very good tutorial! I love B&W.... Tank you

@harshnama1 6 жыл бұрын

Very useful video. Thank you 🙏

@spallan100 9 жыл бұрын

love your video's Mark

@aykegaze2672 7 жыл бұрын

Very interesting topic. Bravo

@mamuphotographer7647 3 жыл бұрын

Your film helped me a lot. thank you very much. Black and white is really magical

@Moodboard39 Жыл бұрын

Yea

@oraghz02 7 жыл бұрын

hey Mr.Mark Wallace interesting interpretation ! see you next one !

@MrJonpeters 9 жыл бұрын

A really great tutorial yet again Mark as I love converting to B&W. I think its very popular today. I'll certainly put your lesson into practice. How's the trip going btw? When do you expect to finish it?

@aidanmcknight3111 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this...fantastic

@Frames_films 9 жыл бұрын

really nice, very useful tips.

@sumittyagi5 3 жыл бұрын

Learnt something good and important today. Thanks

@gardnercalibuso 9 жыл бұрын

Great tips! Thanks..

@stanleyprendergast2133 5 жыл бұрын

This is so great

@canturgan 9 жыл бұрын

It's the tone system. Good information.

@markharris5771 7 жыл бұрын

I really like the photograph of the lock, that's the sort of shot I prefer to do on film.

@murugan1960 6 жыл бұрын

its may very advanced tutorial in the aspect of black and white photos

@marclabro 4 жыл бұрын

nice tuto ! helpful workflow ! i am fan of sylver efex pro2 but this requires a huge tif/psd from lightroom so if we can do the job in raw under LR, it is always welcome.

@hajmanek 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, many thanks, from now my B&W photos looks different :)

@lukasschonleitner2617 3 жыл бұрын

Great video !

@hawg427 9 жыл бұрын

I just had flashbacks from when I went to Photo school in Daytona Beach Photography School. We had to study The Zone System for 6 Mos. but of course when I went there we had to shoot using 4x5 view cameras :-) I wonder if Ansel would have gotten into the Digital scene. Photographers today just don't know how lucky they are getting to use post production. I had to do all my stuff in a darkroom. LOL This is so much easier than shooting 4x5 and having to develop ea. neg. by itself. Good video :-)

@bivboy10 9 жыл бұрын

cheers Mark very good mate

@JohnKorvell 9 жыл бұрын

I hover my cursor over areas of the image to check where my zones are. White shows up in the 90's / black close or at zero. This helps me control (especially) if any whites are getting blown out totally or if some pixels remain. I also click and hold on the histogram to shift zones a bit. Last, I use the color temperature slider to do some fine tuning when the image is already B&W.

@lowe_h_seger Жыл бұрын

Bear in mind that values below 7 in the black areas will not print any details, keep it at seven or above. While white should be below the 250 value to print any details. Generally you would like to have some tonality in a sky and not the same white as the paper itself which you are printing on. Keep the values within these numbers your prints will look a lot more professional and expensive. If one wants to push limits and being very abstract and/or graphic with their work, that's fine as well of course.

@rmgstudios0912 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video

@hitmancorporation 8 жыл бұрын

I was going to watch a movie on Netflix, but then this video distracted me and got me all interested in playing around with some B&W photography again... also this ISN'T THE ZONE SYSTEM! Oh wait... never mind. Taught me a lot - thank you.

@maircraft4079 3 жыл бұрын

A good and simplified application of the zone system using lightroom. Easier than Ps using selections.

@amaitra 2 жыл бұрын

Great video - don't see him in the channel any longer

@hart5483 7 жыл бұрын

awesome video! thank you! by the way, when i edit picture, how should i set my monitor's brightness? should i set it in the middle? or should i max my screen brightness? any other paramater on my screen i should adjust before editing a picture?

@gazlw1175 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much..

@oguzbenice7423 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent !

@user-vn2xx6kx3b 9 жыл бұрын

Soo beautiful video I wondered if still there is a way to do this process by apps that don't have black and white adjustment capability. Only exposure, highlight and shadow? eg. Adobe Photoshop Express

@Daxieho 7 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thx

@daspeed07 9 жыл бұрын

Very cool

@32ndFoto 8 жыл бұрын

Very helpful..

@nelsonted1 9 жыл бұрын

I didn't notice the pink bow until the before and after at the end of the shot. That would have been a cool photo with a little pink in the bow!

@mahmoudabdulhalim6247 9 жыл бұрын

very informative an very nice video good job mark.. can u help me please in my choice between d750 and d810 i really like the d810 but the files size is so BIG and 1/4000 ss in the d750 i do not like it..i am interested in wedding photography so mr mark what is your advise to me thank you

@mhsvz6735 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@tamiraloni4092 9 жыл бұрын

Very interesting.

@1967davidsrebrnik 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when at school in the 80s we studied the zone system, it was quite complicate. We had to take into account the temperature and time of the film developing. We had to prepare a series of test to determine how we'll process the whole picture from the shot until the print. Well it wasn't as easy as lightroom 🤣🤣🤣

@NMalteC 9 жыл бұрын

Nice video. Have you ever considered using the 'Y' key to show the before and after side by side?

@MikeyColon 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@cosmiccomic3744 3 жыл бұрын

amazingggg

@swccbakersfieldca2076 3 жыл бұрын

Good video

@MrK30674 9 жыл бұрын

Great beard!

@TheOsfania 6 жыл бұрын

Adams' original prints were not very high contrast. Most of the high contrast stuff of his that you see now were reprinted by him in the 1960s and 1970s. He chose more contrast as he got older.

@ATATASHIGA 7 жыл бұрын

where is the image of the old run down house for sale in spanish from? It looks incredibly familiar!

@arijitbiswas2065 6 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@OwenEDell 3 жыл бұрын

I was always taught that you want to eliminate any clipping of the whites if you're going to print, in order to avoid having spots on the paper that don't have any toner applied. When I see those red spots it makes me uneasy. Thoughts?

@jinyingzhan927 Жыл бұрын

i have a question. some photographer says a picture should not get into a clipping point because when in printing, it won't print the detail if the dark or highlight side is clipped on histogram. How do you address that issue when you work on dark and highlight?

@sumitagg1 6 жыл бұрын

Can you use this for color images?

@dipbhattacharya 5 жыл бұрын

12:59 - where can I find this option in photoshop cc ? can anyone give me the path ?

@aleksandartrpkov8550 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark. Did you mention that it's RAW photos that you are editing?

@chrishuang8763 5 жыл бұрын

With the Lumix GX9 I bought recently, I just shoot in L Monochrome D for B&W and RAW (in case I needed colour later). Very easy.

@arielc.wilson1126 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, what is the music played in this video? Thanks!

@Geers7Omoorstay 6 жыл бұрын

Mark, I have very good experience with your videos and your cognitive quality, so I venture to consult you if you have a workflow suggestion for me to try to replicate the content of this video in Photoshop exclusively (without resorting to Camera Raw, whose operations are similar to Lightroom)

@Moodboard39 Жыл бұрын

B&W best

@jerryranch3952 7 жыл бұрын

The " zone system" was used by painters for hundreds of years before Ansel Adams. He merely applied a component of composition and tonal theory to photography.

@hawg427 7 жыл бұрын

The "Zone System" was Ansel's baby :-) It's really not a zone system when used in painting. Much harder in photography, that is why it was shot individually on 4x5 or 8x10 B&W film. If you shot using the zone system on medium format or 35mm you had to do the entire roll of film the same way. 4x5 you can dev each film differently. LR makes it possible with digital 35mm.