Ansel Adams Research

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books.


'you don't take a photograph, you make it.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.'

 Zone System

The Zone System is a technique that was formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer back in the 1930's. It is an approach to a standardized way of working that guarantees a correct exposure in every situation, even in the trickiest lighting conditions such as back lighting, extreme difference between light and shadow areas of a scene, and many similar conditions that are most likely going to throw off your camera's metering giving you a completely incorrect exposure.


it allows you to:

• Capturing a correct exposure every time, even in the trickiest light or scene situations.

• Having a precise evaluation of your scene's tones and dynamic range prior to even making a shot.

• Knowing when you need to use graduated neutral density filters.

• Knowing exactly how far apart to take exposure bracketed shots for later blending.

• Determining the situations where you need to use a fill flash to get a correct exposure.

Pre-visualisation 

There are many assumptions that have been developed around this misunderstood word. Unfortunately, much of this confusion is not helped by special interest groups using the term and construing its meaning to something quite foreign from its original definition.

The three most common assumptions associated with previsualization are: it is used exclusively in the motion picture industry; it is used exclusively for designing visual effects; it is primarily three-dimensional animation. Of course, all of these definitions are incorrect, what is really is, is the mental or written plan for what you will create. 

Group f64

Group f/64 was a group of seven 20th-century San Francisco photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western (U.S.) viewpoint. In part, they formed in opposition to the Pictorialist photographic style that had dominated much of the early 20th century, but moreover they wanted to promote a new Modernist aesthetic that was based on precisely exposed images of natural forms and found objects.

This photograph reminds me of christmas, pine cones are always used as christmas decorations and made to smell nice. They also remind me of being a child and finding them in the parks, just like conquers, everyone would try and find the most, the smallest or biggest one. The denotations of this image appear to be a black and white effect, using possibly an IV zone.

This photograph screams procrastination to me. It feels very sad, lonely and quiet. There isn't much going on, everything is very simple. \there is only an elder man siting there reading over files/newspapers. IT crates a sense of loss and longing. The denotations used would be a sepia effect and possibly VIII zone.

This photograph has the connotations of this photograph to me are words such as serendipity, serene and tranquil. It feels like the kind of place I wouldn't mind sitting and reading. The denotations of this photograph would be a black and white effect with a possible II zone.