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Alan has touched on a point, it's all too easy to get confused reading different approaches.
There is a very simple practical way of implementing the Zone System which has formed the backbone of photo education in the UK for over 30+ years, it's easier than Adam's technique in "The Negative". Essentially it's the same approach used by John Blakemore, John Davis, Thomas Joshua Cooper, the late Fay Godwin, etc, and comes from the approach of Minor White who devised the Zone System along with Ansel Adams.
I first came across the approach on a workshop at Duckspool with Peter Goldfield and Peter Cattrell and have copies the page of notes somewhere. It important to remember that despite AA being known for the ZS much of his work was made before he and Minor White devised it and that in reality it's just a simple way of exposing for the shadows and developing for the highlights.
Ian
There is a very simple practical way of implementing the Zone System which has formed the backbone of photo education in the UK for over 30+ years, it's easier than Adam's technique in "The Negative". Essentially it's the same approach used by John Blakemore, John Davis, Thomas Joshua Cooper, the late Fay Godwin, etc, and comes from the approach of Minor White who devised the Zone System along with Ansel Adams.
I first came across the approach on a workshop at Duckspool with Peter Goldfield and Peter Cattrell and have copies the page of notes somewhere. It important to remember that despite AA being known for the ZS much of his work was made before he and Minor White devised it and that in reality it's just a simple way of exposing for the shadows and developing for the highlights.
Ian