Understanding Exposure:ZONE SYSTEM

[Chipmunk888]

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@chip mulang.. tabang dyud ayu.. hehe its guide.. sa proper exposure. eheh

ngelngeg na dyud ka og ek-ek nyor noelie, dili naka ma reach, ehehehe^^

librodo + 1.8 + zone system = yay^^

[noelie_023]

ngelngeg na dyud ka og ek-ek nyor noelie, dili naka ma reach, ehehehe^^

librodo + 1.8 + zone system = yay^^

nyhhaa.. na noob pa aqyu ko nyor chip wui. nyhaha. .taghap2 ra ning ako. hehe.. ^^ gamit dyud ayu diay ang zone sytem. cge na ko basa2 ani. ehhe... practice2 mode. hehe

[dj-dark]

I use it all the time.

I call this... metering hahahahahahahahaha! now how do you use it on landscape?

[noelie_023]

I call this... metering hahahahahahahahaha! now how do you use it on landscape?

uu nga pops.. hehe.. pops question.. for example i set may ev to 0.. then im on outdoor, tendency diba parang ma overexposure higihlight?? ano ang dapat gagawin pops if yan ang situation??

[dj-dark]

uu nga pops.. hehe.. pops question.. for example i set may ev to 0.. then im on outdoor, tendency diba parang ma overexposure higihlight?? ano ang dapat gagawin pops if yan ang situation??

meter the middle gray area of your subject... kung sunog pa rin yung highlights mo adjust ka (shuterspeed or aperture) as popsimontoya's table adjust ka sa zone 6 to compensate. or adjust your EV to -1 or dropdown your ISO (I usually use ISO 200 para may adjustment pa ako upto 100)

madaming paraan

[hayden]

sir cmntoya kindly expalin. hehe... am i right.. for example im shooting out on the street i want to shoot a old man.. wearing white t-shrt. and i meter the white t-shrt set my exposure to +2Ev?? if there are parts that have a hihglight.. dili ba ma overexposed ang hihglight if i set it to +2ev??

it depends man bro if you want to show the details on the old's white shirt then ara ka mag-meter but if not then somewhere else

I call this... metering hahahahahahahahaha! now how do you use it on landscape?

hehehehehehe it took me awhile to get the grips of zone system on landscape, I gave up na lang nalilito na ako, I just meter the clouds/sky bahala na ung iba as long as I get the correct blue or whatever

uu nga pops.. hehe.. pops question.. for example i set may ev to 0.. then im on outdoor, tendency diba parang ma overexposure higihlight?? ano ang dapat gagawin pops if yan ang situation??

hehehe unless you're metering on mid tones sa outdoor then you set your ev to 0

[Hot Ice]

wala gyud gihapon ko kasabot. noob pa gyud. wala pud ko ganahi mubasa kay taas. hehehe

[jrcavs]

thanks for the info!

[slycry]

I call this... metering hahahahahahahahaha! now how do you use it on landscape?

hahaha... me too... i wanna know too....

[cmontoya]

sir cmntoya kindly expalin. hehe... am i right.. for example im shooting out on the street i want to shoot a old man.. wearing white t-shrt. and i meter the white t-shrt set my exposure to +2Ev?? if there are parts that have a hihglight.. dili ba ma overexposed ang hihglight if i set it to +2ev??

When you asked the above question, I assume you've set your camera on aperture priority. Now, let's also assume you are using spot metering, using the center AF point and you are keeping the AF point squarely on the white t-shirt, then yes you're correct. But if you recompose and your AF point is now let's say pointing to a black t-shirt, then you're overexposing by +2EV because you should be at -2EV. The thing about aperture priority is that you don't have control over the shutter speed. Let me get my cam so I can see the actual values ha.

Consumer zoom ako gamit run (kapoy ilis to a prime).

Aperture f/4.5
ISO 800
Point at white bed spread:
At + 2EV, my shutter speed is 0.5 seconds

Now I'm going to point at the black framework of my bed, without changing my EV
The shutter is at 2 seconds

So this is the reason why I don't trust AV. Manual all the way.

If I set to manual, same aperture and ISO, my shutter speed is 0.5 seconds. I point at the black
framework, still 0.5 seconds and I want to keep it that way because I'd like the viewer to focus on my lovely white bed spread

As for blowing out highlights, well, as you've noticed current DSLRs have limited latitudes (nag-start Zone 3, no zone 1 to 2). It can't capture all the possible tonal range of high contrast scenes. Mao na uso HDR to compensate.

The rule of thumb (which I don't follow to the letter) is: Expose for midtones but check your highlights. The question is, are the highlights that important? For example, naa ka brother graduate Naval Academy and meter off his brown skin (assuming brown iya skin) under a noon sun, the tendency is his uniform would be blown out. So imo meter iya uniform at +2 but the problem is his skin tone is now lighter. Unsa man mas importante, iya nawong or iya uniform? Kung imo tubag both, aw, shoot RAW and use bracketing. Then pag HDR HDR