ABSTRACT
This chapter provides readers with a clear and simple method for obtaining the best possible quality in their digital photographs. It also provides a broad understanding of the basic technical concepts that underlie digital image processing. One interesting way to consider the profound transition fine art photographers have gone through is from the perspective of what it took to become a fully functional practitioner before the digital revolution began. The debate between “purists” and digital converts is the inevitable expression of personal aesthetic preferences more than a fundamental schism within photography itself. The Zone System provides with a very precise and consistent method for accurately exposing for the highlights in ways that might not feel intuitive when looking at a Live View image on photographers camera’s Liquid-crystal display monitor. Standalone raw converters are not integrated into either digital back or camera systems or digital editing systems such as Adobe Photoshop.
