Ansel Adams

[sunshine51]

A slightly dated doco from 2002...I say no more...

[mrhitchens]

Ansel Adams, fantastic^^

[jayceenik]

Thank you for posting this very interesting VDO

Edited August 26, 2015 by jayceenik

[Longtooth]

My cousin, who did a lot of advanced rock climbing in Yosemite National Park, treats a book of Ansel Adams' Yosemite pictures as a religious icon. The thing you don't get from the pictures is the wonderful smell of true nature in Yosemite Valley. A sister valley, I'm told just as beautiful, was turned into a water reservoir many years ago, for San Francisco, mainly. (Hetch Hetchy or some such, I believe.) There were American Indians (Indigenous People?) in both valleys not that long ago. Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite are both derivations of American Indian names for the areas. I can more and more appreciate that science fiction movie about the last forests of earth being sent into space to preserve them. You just shake your head in disbelief at mankind.

Edited August 26, 2015 by Longtooth

[canuckamuck]

Ansel Adams Quotes

-A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

-Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

-A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

-There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

-Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

-Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

-You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

-There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

-We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

-When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Link

And my favorite. "And the Lord created light and He divided it into 10 zones" Apparently there is a picture of him dressed like Moses that goes with this, but I have never seen it.

[Northwindhermit]

Thanks for the video link. Wonderful!

[sunshine51]

I'm pleased that you folks like the documentary. The man is an inspiration to many

people, not just photographers.

Here's a few links you may also enjoy about the man...

http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/9aa/9aa394.htm

http://www.creativephotography.org/artists/ansel-adams

http://www.prophotoshow.net/2011/10/29/photography-zone-system-for-digital-and-film/

The last link isn't really about mr. Adams however ot is about something he & a colleague

invented and it's still very useful in todays digital age.

Edited August 27, 2015 by sunshine51