[Leica] New Picture Place --- ZONE SYSTEM? ;-)

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Jim has some beautiful images here:
http://www.visualimpressions.com

And as for shooting living, breathing things, you'll notice he did a 
wonderful 
job photographing that handsome devil at the bottom of his Galleries page ;-)

He would be glad to hear from many of his old, errrr, slightly mature, 
friends 
on this list so do drop him a line if you have a moment.
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Mon, September 13, 2010 8:39:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] New Picture Place --- ZONE SYSTEM? ;-)

Ric Carter offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] New Picture Place --- ZONE SYSTEM? ;-)


> charming
> ric

Hi  Ric,
Yep, Jim sure knows! :-)  Quite simply because he's an older guy who knows 
what 
the light world is all about.

It's KISS for light and all other aspects of photography. I mean you really 
don't think a gentlemen of a "slightly mature age"as Jim, you can't say 
"old" 
for heaven sakes! He's still a young guy who would use the KISS principle to 
shoot many of his pictures! :-) :-) 


Jim's explanation is the best common sense description about the zone system 
I've ever read. Anything else is garbage because it does nothing but 
distract 
your attention away from the "PHOTO MOMENT!" Quite simply by wasting the 
seconds 
of time figuring out what zone it is............ the main photo moment is 
lost.

UNLESS YOU ARE SHOOTING ROCKS... that haven't moved in a million years! Or 
some 
non breathing element that also hasn't moved in a million years! ;-)

You see it's quite simple really, because this is the way 99.9% of my 
photography during the past 60 years has been shot without any knowledge of 
the 
ZONE SYSTEM! Look through viewfinder, image of action looks cool, little red 
light comes on.... CLICK! :-) Damn it's so cool! Why waste time thinking 
about 
the zone system?:-) 

cheers,
Dr. ted :-) 

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