Gary Ray Rush Photography
1351 Queen Street West M6K 1M1 Toronto, ON, Canada

Intro to the Zone System lesson - 4 Final lesson in this series. Learn how to adjust your exposure settings on your camera to achieve more accurate and more creative exposures!

Introduction to the Zone System - Lesson 3 Your camera’s light meter interprets any scene to be exposed to a middle or mid-tone grey. When your camera gives you a correct" exposure reading it’s giving you an exposure that averages all the tonal values; the brights, mid-tones and dark tones in your scene, to a mid-tone grey. Naturally this becomes a problem when your scene is primarily light or primarily dark.

Introduction to the Zone System for Digital Photography - Lesson 2 Histograms are an important tool for photographers looking to understand and control their exposures. I trust the histogram over what your camera screen displays to correctly indicate what your exposure looks like.

Introduction to the Zone System for Digital Photography - Lesson 1 A digital camera can record 256 brightness values. In this series of lessons I'll teach you how to control how your camera records them.

Measuring Brightness Values. A digital camera can record 256 brightness values. In this series of lessons I'll teach you how to control how your camera records them.