Just discover this playlist on darktable couple days ago, and I have to say, it is just AWESOME !!! I've been using Darktable for almost 2 years now, and this is the first videos that I find really helpfull and that goes really in depth of each modules. Keep going mate, and thanks a lot !

What a great playlist! Thank you so much!

Another super helpful and informative darktable video. Keep up the great work!

In my humble opinion, Ansel Adams was probably the most extraordinary genius of photography History.

It seems that monochoriome can also apply to shades of other colors than grey, so monochoriome basically includes black and white pics tinted with one color, like sepia. I Guess you can also interpret the term black and white literally, so you have only 100% black and 100% white pixels - but this obviously doesn't happen very often.

Thanks Bruce, ya I had the darktable 2.6.1 update come through my update system, should be interested to see the difference. Another great video.

The "zone system" module is definitely another tool which gives more options. Maybe quicker than masks? Laugh at myself for not ever trying it before watching this video. One step at a time and making progress. Thanks Bruce!

Another great video.

Nice video Bruce I like that Darktable has an actual Zone System module. I use the Zone System in my photography all the time to attain my exposure so it's nice to see a module I can use to check myself with. Thanks for all the great videos.

thank you, I just download it, and for shure I'm gonna try it, very promissing. congratulations, and thank you for your time and effort. best brazilian regards.

Thanks Bruce.

thanks for explaining this so clearly! i've been playing with darktable on and off for about a year now, but i'm not very familiar with some of the more advanced features like this. (or at least this feels more advanced to me, ha ha.) looking forward to checking out more of your videos!

Glad to see you're using Linux and free software. This makes your videos practical for everyone regardless of budget. I am using second hand computers and cameras and I can achieve nice results with this setup and now with zone system explained I feel like I am starting to come to grips with darktable. What a marvellous piece of free software.

Wow! finally something helpful on darktable. I watched a few other youtubers and read the manual for darktable just trying to figure out how to only adjust exposure in particular areas of the photo.

Doesn't look like there's been a comment in 9 months. I just wanted to let you know that these videos are still valuable to us out here still learning. I know the new version is out, but your videos are fantastic and have really helped me get started. Thank you!

Sorry if you are getting negative feedback, it is totally undeserved. Just keep doing what you are, the content is great for us Newbies.

Superb demo of the zone system. Students of photography will do well to study Adam's work and the zone system. I have had a play with this module and am blown away with the very fine exposure and contrast control it affords. It's almost like having independent ISO values for each zone. The more I learn about DT, the less I like HDR which nearly always looks over cooked and artificial especially landscape skies. DT very nearly makes multi-exposure and graduated ND filters redundant. The only filter that (maybe) it can't emulate if a polarising filter. I used to spend hours editing my landscapes in Adobe Photoshop and then Gimp carefully creating masks etc but DT is amazing with the mask systems.

Hey Bruce thanks for another great video....I had one comment Bruce I think that when you were explaining the editing of the zones in your images you demonstrated that you were lightening and darkening zones and so I think the focus of what you presented may have come across only as a way to selectively edit exposure of the image, which is i guess true but isn't it also effectively a remapping of a zone or tonal range in your image so that if you drag a single zone across three fixed zones either lighter or darker then that single zone in the image is now remapped to 3 physical tonal ranges and so ultimately has more contrast/detail as well...I think that is true?? Anyway great tutorial I just thought I would ask this as some time ago I messed around with an open-source program called Lightzone and it was based around the use of the zone system....Also I think your video is a great addition to get people to think about images in a different way that can be very useful..I came across this video which talks about metering and exposure and how it relates to the zone system and I think it complements yours well showing how zones could be put in place while shooting your photos and it provides a good tie in to your video and comments related to the post processing part...so maybe check it out and see what you think....

Hi Bruce, interesting series of videos! I have been using Lightroom since version 2 and don't like the way Adobe is going with their pricing policy. I'm using Lightroom 6.14 (perpetual license) but I'm investigating alternatives. Darktable has been high on my list, but it's only thanks to your videos that I got started with it. Thanks a lot for these very useful videos.

thanks mr. Bruce :3