Sara Lobkovich, J.D., NBC-HWC @saralobkovich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026More than a decade ago, I took up film photography, and even went to photography school for a few quarters. I learned about the zone system in black and white photography. I've thought of it rarely since. 110
Sara Lobkovich, J.D., NBC-HWC @saralobkovich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026But when my brain needed a reference, the cells that held the zone system activated and were like OMG TODAY'S OUR DAY 100
Sara Lobkovich, J.D., NBC-HWC @saralobkovich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026so where some people would look at oil pastels and be able to group them by "like" amounts of light and dark, the system that I can use to do that since my brain doesn't do it for me, is to take a photo of my pastels, convert it to black and white, and then arrange my pastels from black to white. 100
