‘You don’t take a photograph, you make it’
Ansel Adams
This quote is significant and a famous quote in the photography industry, as it shows the importance of photography and how well thought out it is. Adams says that ‘you make it’ which implies that a photographer takes time to plan his photos out to create the desired outcome, this implies that photography is made the same way you make a piece of artwork.
ANSEL ADAMS:
Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. Ansel Adams was an advocate of environmental protection, national parks and creating an enduring legacy of responses to the power of nature and sublime conditions. Drawn to the beauty of nature’s monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution.
ANSEL ADAMS GROUP f/64
During the Great Depression, the citizens of America looked towards the West and the opportunities it offered, particularly through massive public works projects. Ansel Adams was one of the original members of the group. The first attempt in spreading their visual ideas was the 1932 exhibition of eighty of their photographs held at the M.H.
ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY:
ANSEL ADAMS ZONE SYSTEM:
This example of Adams photography shows how different films can affect the image. The ‘Monolith, the face of Half Dome, 1927‘ photo supports this on how a red film looks different from a yellow film. The image on the left shows the outcome of a photo created with red film, the image is darker and more dramatic which is what we believe Adams was trying to do. However the image used by the yellow film is a subtle black and white images with a slightly high exposure.
IMAGE ANALYSIS:
This Ansel Adams image shows a dramatic landscape of the Grand Tetons and The snake river. The leading lines follow the river to the focal point of the image of the mountains. Due to the dark corner bottoms thirds, following the rule of thirds, and the slightly dark vignette around the image it highlights the light and shape in the clouds, its shows the light beaming through the clouds onto the mountains. The tone of the image is dark however there is some light beaming from the clouds and glistening in the river, overall I think this image is balanced with the different tones of greys, blacks and whites while the composition also being balanced.