When editing the images in light room I converted them first to black and white then changed the exposure, shadows, contrast etc. until I had an image that had the desired level of contrast and made sure that I was using Adams’ work as a reference the whole time. My aim wasn’t and isn’t to make images that could be his but to use his methods and his themes to try and show the landscapes that I know and love as they are changing and when I saw the way that Adams did it felt that that it was a good way to do it felt that that it was a good way to do it. In the edit I decided to add a gradient filter to the top of some of the images to draw attention away from the sky as it is dead space in these images so the filter brings it back down to the actual landscape, the filter does this without completely removing the sky from the image.