Definition of the month : Zone System

The Zone System
I had the pleasure of studying Ansel Adams Zone System in a 2-Year College Course during my photography classes and found it to simply amazing and those skills I still apply to my color and digital photography.  Every photographer who wishes to pursue a professional career in this medium should study the Zone System and understand how to apply it to their craft.

Image Courtesy of: Liz’s Cinematography 101: Measuring Light

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. Although it originated with black-and-white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black-and-white and color, negative and reversal, and to digital photography . . . 

Read Photo Tuts nice overview of the Zone System

Then go learn more ... you owe it to your photography career!