ansel adams summary

Around 17 years old, Ansel Adams photographs focuses on producing soft-focused landscapes called “pictorialism.” Later on he focuses on using the technique of “previsualization,” where he would carefully calculate the effect of a photograph before taking it. His very first work using this technique is presented through the photograph, The Face of Half Dome (1927). In 1928 he used a telephoto lens to create stunning close up image of a mountain that was in fact very far away. Then around 1930s, in joining the group f/64, he experimented with large format cameras to produce maximum depth of field and extremely sharp-focus images. This was when he started to photograph realism. The next decades, 1940s, he concentrated on photographing close up still-life to panoramic views and distant landscapes.
His range of photographic styles includes romanticism, poetic-vision, technical precision, and environmental advocacy.
“Expose for shadows; develop for the highlights” as said by Ansel Adams, when he photograph his works he would look for the composition of the shadows on the subject if not the fore and back ground. After Adams pursues “straight photography” he continues using this photographic method until his death. Straight photography is the clarity of the lens being emphasized, and the final print gave no appearance of being manipulated in the camera or the darkroom. He uses “burning” and “dodging” in the darkroom to manipulate his prints to the way he would rather prefer. In addition, he developed a scientific method to photography called the Zone system, for the purpose of manipulating the tonalities of the final print. In his works he has very high contrast of depth to the images, the shadows were intensify to give off a better depth of field photograph.
Most of his works are like a work of art, they are not like documentaries of a place, thing, or persons. The photographs seems like they can be read in words instead of as a picture. In addition, in these works all the subjects and practically everything is in focus and nothing is blur. The creativity and the beauty presented in his photographs are attractive. I would like to emulate his stylistic fashion and conceptual fashion as well.
The shots I’m trying to do is trying to make it as sharp as I could, putting everything in focus. With that I also want to present a pleasing artistic view of the subject I focus on. The photos are probably will consists of landscapes and nature, since he concentrates a lot on these categories.




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