Tag: black-and-white-photography

  • The Zone System

    After 60 years of shooting pro and amateur I am still not sure I am the guy you should ask about the Zone System as described by master photographer Ansel Adams. Invented by Adams 80 years ago the Zone System is used in black and white photography as a relative quick way of determine the…

  • 16,000 steps

    Saturday’s photo walk with the Toronto Photo Walk group was a great success. We met at a coffee shop at the south end of Bathurst Street just east of the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto and began making new friends right away. By the end of the walk (which ended at a beer pub!)…

  • Why Is Street Photography So Hard To Do Right?

    It’s a warm day in February (Saturday, Feb. 10) and the Toronto Film Shooters are off on what’s called Jo-Anne’s Pastry and Chocolate Trail Through The City That’s Jo-Anne with the bag next to Marion just right of center. Note the wide variety of cameras from Leicas dating back to the 30s to twin-lens Rolleiflex…

  • Film or Digital

    Why has there been so much interest in black and white film photography when digital is so much easier to use and so much improved when it comes to quality of the images? The simple answer is dynamic range. So what’s dynamic range and why is it important? The simple answer actually lies in our…