Learning abstract art and having recently signed on for a short course in collaging, the notion of ‘values’ comes up repeatedly. Simply meaning of course “value of light and dark of a certain shade or tone” though identifying such is harder than it seems especially around the mid tones.
Hence in 1907 Denman Ross drew up a value scale of white to black with intervening shades of grey to help identify light, mid-tones, and darks more easily. [source]
Photographs in greyscale monochrome also aim to to cover these values as per Ansel Adam’s 1930 system of 10 Zones to control exposure in film photography with depth, ranging from black to white and multiple greys in between.
Of course Adams was capturing the drama of the American wilderness but a post-Christmas winter walk on a grey overcast day in S.W. England meant that there were few shadows, few dramatic extremes in the landscapes so I just opted for the mid values of shooting in the Ricoh GRiii monotone recipe until the light faded fast.
PoetryPix 