Ansel Adams Approach To Photography

David Bailey is an English author and photographer based in East London. He is widely revelled as one of the greatest photographers ever; thanks to his free-spirited and nonconformist approach to his technique. He felt as though he needed to integrate himself into his projects as well as his subjects, which is what set him apart from the others in his league. He always showed a piece of himself in every photograph or portrait in his career.

	 In 1928 Ansel was an official photographer for the Sierra Club at the Jasper National Park in Canada. In 1932, Ansel opened the short-lived Ansel Adams Gallery for photography along with other arts. Ansel lectured and taught to make his living when his gallery was open.

Ansel Adams photograph, ‘the tetons and the snake river’ is one of Adam 's most famous images, which is also an adequate summary of his photographic style. It shows clarity and depth.

When people think of professional photographers, they think of people taking pictures for a company or a person. But the reality is, professional photographers are the artists of pictures because they are the ones who make sure the pictures are at the right aperture, shutter speed, and Iso resolution rating. People think pictures symbolize the place setting or a memory of the existence of what they’re taking. For a professional photographer, they see the quality of picture by the lighting in the background, exposure, and the focus that creates that perfect picture. When I think of a good professional photographer, I think of Richard Avedon. Richard Avedon was a professional fashion and portrait photographer who did a wide variety of professional photographs from clothing designers and Motion Blur photographs.

Being greatly influenced by his first trip to Sierra, Adams life was coloured by the stunning view of pine trees and white waters creating the desire for him to learn photography. Adams quickly became aware of aesthetic qualities in nature, such as light, the movement in clouds and wind revealed in the wilderness and used them to his advantages to convey these moods. Adams believed a photograph was an expression of ones view, not just of the subject, but life. Adams life was filled with the expression of nature, “in the mountains, rivers, and valleys of the West he saw poetry, he saw truth, he saw wisdom, he saw grace. To Ansel, the terrain was so gorgeously caught by his lens was not just earth and sky, but spirit and vision.” With such compassion for nature Adam could easily express and represent his current feelings and moods within a photograph. Adams photography progressed beyond emotional experience, Adams furthered photography as an art. By creating the zone system Adams gave each shade of grey a specific value, allowing for a proper exposure and development for each black and white photo. Along with Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Willard Van Dyke, Adams created the group f/64, going against the pictorial style using a small aperture to capture photos with great detail and definition, formulating the revolutionary of straight photography. Allowing for

I also believe that Ansel Adams takes what he is given; I do not believe that he waits for the clouds to show up at a current spot in the sky before he takes a picture. In the case of Half Dome Ansel Adams is using pure straight photography meaning that when he takes a photograph he wants to make it look as realistic as possible, this also means that Ansel Adams did not use any kind of manipulation software to edit his pictures in any way. In the photograph of Half Dome Ansel Adams uses no staged light sources in the photograph of Half Dome. The only light source that is used in the photograph of Half Dome is from the setting sun, or the sun that is beginning to set. Because of that I believe in the photograph of Half Dome Ansel Adams uses pure/straight lighting. The pure lighting comes from the sun setting. Ansel Adams also does not use any diffuse or direct lighting in the photograph of Half Dome. Ansel Adams uses black and white as his medium in his photographs. Because of the white that stands out in his photograph of Half Dome, I believe Ansel Adams uses cool colors. Ansel Adams also uses a complementary harmony in the photograph of Half Dome, black and

He was known for his work with shells, vegetables, abstract nudes, natural rock and tree formations. His portraits were frequently framed filling and sharp. His photography seemed luxurious with abstract shapes and heavy contrast. Weston was considered a Modernist photographer as well as known for "straight photography" which was the renunciation of manipulation of the photographic procedure. He wanted to capture a realistic portrayal of life rather than take a more artistic, soft-focused route. Photos like those of Pictorialism, which was popular at that

     In the 1880’s, Eakins purchased his first camera during the summer. He had used photographs from the other sources as aids for his painting in the 1870’s, but the acquisition of his own camera inspired a period of intensive investigation of photography as a tool for making art. Eakins made scores of photographs as studies for a group of major paintings, among them Mending the Net, Swimming, and Cowboys in the Bad Lands. He also told students in his academy to take pictures to help them.

This group embodies the concepts of Ansel Adams, and this is what was so distinctive about his work. The realization of photographic vision through technically flawless prints was an approach that Ansel took in photography. But this did not stop experimentation that led him to the use of several large-formats and miniature cameras. to shed some light on the work of Adams, I should point out that he was deeply effected by the nature, especially by the Yosemite valley, and the four hundred mile long mountain range, called Sierra Nevada, where he kept coming back every summer, where he practiced climbing or just took long trips in which a great deal of photography was involved. During these summers, he developed an interest in conservation and was dedicated to record the splendid beauty of these valleys and mountain ranges. So the prominent factor in Ansel’s work was his love of nature, and the

Ansel Adams, an American photographer, was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902 to Olive Bray and Charles Hitchcock Adams and was named after his uncle Ansel Easton. His family was of Irish descent and immigrated to New England in the early eighteenth century. Olive and Charles would later move to California and give birth to their only son. His grandfather ran a very successful lumber business which would eventually be left to Ansel’s father, Charles. Growing up seeing firsthand the effects of the lumber clear-cutting industry would later lead to his condemnation of the practice and open the door for a career in environmentalism.

Ansel Adams is a famous American photographer. He is well known for capturing images of the American West. Ansel was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. As a toddler Ansel was in “the great earthquake and fire of 1906” (Turnage). This caused him to break his nose and kept him a lasting mark all through his life. With having a broken nose and being shy while in school years Ansel was not successful with fitting in. But, “his father and aunt tutored him at home” (Turnage) helping him obtain a diploma from a private school. Growing up he lived “in a “house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate” (Turnage).

In 1916 Ansel Adams was a photographer who used his work to promote conservation of the wild around the area. He took a trip to Yosemite National Park where he saw more than what lay in the national park, when he looked through the lense he was fascinated. He continued to tay photos of the nature that lay beneath him in Yosemite. Later Adams was on a roll and he then began to learn darkroom techniques. He also read many photography magazines. Ansel Adams also went to photography meetings and he would go to art exhibits.

Adams felt a sense of duty to share his knowledge of nature and photography. “…[Adams] was master teacher as well as a master photographer” (Schaefer, 1992). He wrote many books and taught students his art. Adams technical ability in the darkroom was magical. He set the standard for black and white printing. His discriminating taste and meticulously produced prints continue to amaze current generations twenty-five years after his death. Adams was an experimenter and a modernist with his camera.

The artist portrayed on the altoid tin is Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in Western addition, san Francisco california. Ansel died on April 22, 1984 in Monterey california. Ansel Adams Had gotten his education at Harvard University in 1981 and he had also studied at Yale University. Ansel adams does Photography using his number one piece of equipment his camera as well as his eyes because photography isn’t the photograph it’s the eyes of whos taking the picture as he mainly took black and white photographs. Ansel’s style of art consists of black and white photographs, landscapes, and nature. He was known as an environmentalists during the period of the 1920s - 1970s. Environmentalists are people who support the nature and the natural state of the world for example yellowstone park has the natural setting and nature that the world had created itself. Ansel Adams had originally trained to become a pianist in which he still played throughout his lifetime, but he was always fascinated with nature and photographs since a young age. Ansel adams had broke his nose in 1906 from an aftershock from an earthquake as it pitched him face forward into a garden wall. Ansel Adams actually did not do well in school and had transferred into multiple different schools and had behavioral problems and was stated as being hyperactive. Adams first camera was a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie. Ansel sold his first photos to Best’s Studio in Yosemite Valley and became good friends

William Klein's creative process simply boils down to him simply traveling the world with his camera to take multiple pictures of something or someone that's piqued his interest. He, along with many other photographers, follow-up with searching through his contact sheets and/or memory cards for that one photograph. After sitting down and watching some interviews people have had with Klein, I learned that he doesn’t follow traditional technique as he was self-taught and simply did this, film, graphic design work, and more because it held his interest and was fun to him. Due to the fact Klein was able to make his career enjoyable for himself, it allowed him to capture images of various situations with ease—not one for being picky about his light