Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- About the Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- The Concept -- 1. GETTING STARTED -- Variables and Constants -- Controlling Variables -- Aperture and Shutter Speed Calibration -- Film Speed Test -- 2. UNDERSTANDING LIGHT -- Color and Tonality -- "Seeing" the Scene: Human Vision vs. Photography -- Qualities of Light -- Reflected Light -- Specular vs. Diffuse Light -- Sweet Light -- 3. THE ZONE SCALE -- Dark Zones (0, I, II) -- Zone 0 (Black) -- Zone I (Near Black) -- Zone II (Patterned Darkness) -- Detail Zones (Zones III, IV, V, VI, and VII) -- Zone III (Shadow Detail) -- Zone IV (Dark Middle Gray) -- Zone V (Middle Gray) -- Zone VI (Light Middle Gray) -- Zone VII (Highlight Detail) -- Highlight Zones (Zones VIII, IX, and X) -- Zone VIII (Patterned Highlight) -- Zone IX (Near White) -- Zone X (White) -- 4. ZONE PLACEMENT -- The Law of Reciprocity -- The Characteristic Curve -- The Paper Curve -- The Film Curve -- Placing the Zones -- Alternative Metering Methods -- Dark-Tone Metering -- Highlight Detail Metering -- Average Value Metering -- 5. VISUALIZING THE SYSTEM -- Flare -- Camera System Flare -- Scenic Flare -- Tonal Relationships -- Expansion/Compaction -- 6. DEVELOPMENT -- The Paper -- The Film -- Plotting Film Curves -- Exactness of Development -- 7. MAKING PHOTOGRAPHS -- Zone Control as an Overall Concept -- Zone Control as a Tonal Separation Concept -- Incident Metering -- Field Charts -- 8. IN-CAMERA CONTRAST CORRECTION -- Filters -- Dodging Exposure -- Preexposure -- Reciprocity Failure Compensation -- Using Reciprocity Failure for Expansion -- 9. ADVANCED PRINTING TECHNIQUES -- Global Controls -- Development Control -- Multi-Contrast Printing -- Local Control -- Filter Dodging and Burning -- Flashing -- Bleaching -- Intensifying/Toning Negatives.

10. THE ZONE SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY -- Issues for Digital Photography in a Zone System Approach -- Defining the Parts of a Digital Zone System -- Testing -- Digital Zone Exposure -- Using the Digital System -- Post-Capture Processing -- Output -- High Dynamic Range Imaging -- CONCLUSION A Personal Approach to the Visual Language -- Index -- Back Cover.