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SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Ansel Adams – Master Photographers (BBC)
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Part 2:
Part 3:
Photography Visualization: Advice by Ansel Adams
1958 Documentary on Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (PBS) 2002
Diana Eftaiha, “Understanding & Using Ansel Adam’s Zone System” (via envatotuts+) 2013
How Big is Snapchat (via Photoworld)
Roland Barthes, “Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography”
Sarah Boxer, “Critic’s Notebook; Memories Live In Ansel Adams’s Dreamscapes” (via New York Times) 2001
Sarah Hill, “”Landscape,Writing, and Photography” (via University of Auckland
Italian and Art History) 1996
David P. Peeler, “The Romance of Platonic Forms: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams” Colby, Volume 25, Issue 2 1989
His real intention was to try to crush the memory of superior artists. We all should erase this "technician" from the history of photography the way he tried to erase Mortensen. He was NOT an artist.
I think the writer misses important considerations of Ansel Adams work. First like many I like his work. Still he disparages color photography. This was related to how commercial photography existed at the start of Adams career. Nor was Adams alone, but he took the trouble to put down his opinions and identify himself with his era. Soon after his death color photography emerged out of the shadow of the black and white photo era. Secondly Adams is mediocre shooting people. His technical claims of visualization, and the zone system did not translate well seeing people. In this sense Adams shrinks from greatness to a much narrower visualization. His artistic zone was not eleven steps but just two. Nature, and writing textbooks illustrating his theory of good photos. While he extolled the technology of photography, his technical grasp was familiarity with view cameras, not vision. So for example f64 wants an all over focused photo print. This ignores the center periphery experience of vision. Technically Adams cannot theorize what to say about how vision works and this deficit post his demise diminished his reputation as a savant.
This video somehow made me emotional, this is absolutely beautiful
Thank you 😊. Amazing video 👍🏽
3:40 the Zone system isnt defined by each number being 1 F or T stop apart, it represents the complete dynamic range of the camera, that way the beauty in the Zone System is that its a blanket which can cover any camera, and can be applied from an SLR film camera to the digital ARRI Alexa Classic (which has 14 stops of light, but the zone system still applies). 0 is your darkest, 10 your brightest, zone 6 is best for caucasian skintone, but an extra half a stop for more darker skin
Effort and time and determination.
Please do more photography analysis
Can we have your permission to show this video to our camera Club members please?
I think you got your point across well (despite butchering the half dome story) but you should at least use images that were actually taken by the man! The image at 4:40 isn't an Ansel Adams photograph.
I am sitting under a signed print by Ansel Adams as I write this. It was purchased from one of his folios that a dealer broke apart and sold individually. I am delighted to see your piece. Wherever did you find the source material for Adams' comments? I would love to have all of it in its entirety.
We mere mortals cannot hope to comprehend the effort and artistry in his prints. It is not well known, but each and every one of his signed original prints, in each of the folios, was hand printed by Adams in his darkroom. It is difficult to put yourself in his shoes: hauling a huge view camera to just the right spot at the right time of the right day, carrying glass plates which he probably had hand prepared, taking the image, and having to reverse the entire process getting the exposed plates back to his darkroom to develop them. And, only then, seeing the image he'd captured. I am told that he dodged and burned each print himself, by hand, personally (as did most landscape photographers in his day).
I wonder how many of today's digital photogs know what dodging and burning mean? 🙂
http://anseladams.org/anadonwostwa.html
This is perhaps the greatest video I have ever watched.
greatest
I would LOVE to hear your interpretation of Helmut Newton
Thank you, beautiful video!
Hi! I'm from Brazil and I recommend you to search for a Brazilian photographer called Sebastião Salgado.
I hate to be a pedant, bit Teton is pronounced "tee-ton".
Let me tell you something Nerdwriter at minute 2:23 you literally had me in awe when you show the original picture coupled with the way that you were explaining the process and then you showed that really super dope second take…wow you are so good at your job sir
your videos make me emotional
Thank you for this. As a 60 year old shooter, I’ve studied Ansel and his work, own his volumes on Photography and went to school to learn my craft, hauled large format cameras over dunes and into valleys to [make] a photograph and spent hours with my hands in chemicals, under enlargers, burning and dodging my way to my end product with baited breath and joy at success. Ansel was right to hold excitement over the digital wave to come. I resisted and resented it at first, but have come to realize that our small clique has been liberated. Photography is now democratized and anyone with an iPhone can see what I see. Its maddening and wonderful all at once. But in the end, we get future artists who do not have to suffer the pain of technology to arrive at their vision to share with us all.
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Pardon for my ignorance, but can someone explain me what does he means by "For some people a year is a 25th of a second"?
what happened to your mic 🙂 cool move , i know its not recording , still cool 🙂
could you do one on composition? that's be awesome.
Oy I'm kvelling
Thanks so much
Once again I learned something I didn't know before
I knew he was a genius and now I know why
This reminded me of Sebastião Salgado, I would love to see a video about him!
You don’t really understand photography until you realize that taking a three dimensional scene and converting it onto two dimensional sheet of paper is not an act of documentation but rather an act artistry. The trick is visualizing the final artistic piece.
Holy shit 😱.
Inspiring
hey… you are cute
What is the song played at 2:54
Dope
The irony is AA’s photographs have become what he despised; scenic postcards.
Very, very well said.
how yo make everything so emotional ? love the way of your presentation!
such a great introduction to such a great artist… loved the video!
Thanks for this video. I'm not sure how many non-photographers look at his work and appreciate what they're seeing. Well, they appreciate the beauty, but probably not the craft. His ability to capture tonal range was, and is, simply unmatched. I'll struggle with a modern, top-of-the-line DLSR, Lightroom, and Photoshop to capture the range of detail he got with that ancient equipment. It's the definition of genius.
FWIW: I still use his zone system in my head, even though modern cameras have largely made it unnecessary. It just works.
jesus fuck. i'm an amateur nature photographer myself. you see so many fucking pictures out there, some by really skilled artists with great equipment, but every so often you come across someone who is next level. it's those times when the internet/the world is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
you are Ansel Adams of video editing… the way you arrange the order or sequence of what should come next and the way you make the nerd viewer(like me) to find interest in the topic, even if I don't wanna is really (what to say…)
love from india.
Why am I weeping????
This is one of my favorites, and I love most of your videos, but a particular detail: I loved what you did at min 2:46, fascinating! the way you fluently communicate, audiovisualmente… (sorry, hablo español) great videos! You are one of the best references I've ever found.
I am not much of a photographer, but I thought there were Ten Zones…..0-9.?
"Thanks to things like Instagram and Snapchat photographs in general are so ever present in our lives that standards about what we believe to be great work in this field are drowned out by the literally billions of photos that are uploaded everyday"
I've been thinking the same for years, but I don't usually speak my opinion because I don't want to be called snob or something like that. THANK YOUUUUUU!!!
Could you do a video on Bukowski
your videos are so so good. thank you for your great channel and video work. keep it up you are awesome!!!!
Great vid. Thanks very much and keep up the good work, you’re awesome.
I saw an exhibit of his at the PEM
Now i love him tooo
Wow his photos are truly amazing!
Does anyone know the piano piece at the later bit of the video?