Matching Shots - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 366

Fig. 9.7 Primary correction for cool image.

Fig. 9.8 Data from Primary room.

The tonal separation really makes the detail pop. “It looks like you can
see individual bricks in the façade,” I comment.

I still use the Zone System every day.

- Craig Leffel, Optimus

“Absolutely, and that midtone kind of really stretches out. One of the
things I tell colorists is that you have to discern rather quickly: where's
the white? What's a white point? If you think of the whitest points and
the darkest points, and then everything else is kind of midtone. Then
if you manipulate that midtone and think of midtone as a curve that
you're kind of sliding down, you can sort of round this image out to
have some richness. So you've added a bunch of black and stretched out
the image, not to the point where it's harsh or that you're clipping any-
thing unnecessarily—in an image like this you kind of have to clip, but—
you've stretched it out to have dynamic range: a black, a little-bit-higher