Rescheduled - TBA -- Classic Zone System Photography - Master the Art of Traditional B&W Negatives and Prints - with Stephen Brownlee

In this simplified approach to Zone System you’ll learn the basics of the B&W Zone System described and refined by Ansel Adams, for producing the highest quality gelatin-silver photographic images. Thirty-eight year photography veteran and master printer Stephen Brownlee teaches the language of seeing in tonal zones and the techniques of reproducing these tonalities of reflected light accurately in beautiful, traditional silver-based films and papers. This 2-day course covers every step from optimal metering and capture, determining personal film speed and development time, and processing to bringing out the image in the darkroom on fine archivally-toned papers.

Just bring yourself and a film camera with manual settings. Amateurs to professionals welcome.

Bring: film camera ability to adjust film speed, shutter speed and lens aperture, basic B&W darkroom experience helpful but not mandatory.

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About the Instructor

Photography is my passion and craft. I started photographing while stationed in Thailand in 1972.  Basically self-taught, I did attend Atlanta College of Art and also workshops by the renowned photographer John Sexton. I practice both Black & white and color photography. Film is my preference for image capture. I have traveled the world making images – Thaliand, Nepal, China, Tibet, Iceland, New Zealand to name a few places. But nothing compares to the American Southwest for its beauty and diversity.