Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was a very important photographer, who inspired a lot of photographers around the 1930’s, and the world today. His aim throughout his career was to capture through the lens. You could say that Ansel Adams was one of the most important figures in photography, adapting new ideas, settings, and techniques to his images, which produced inspiring images.

For example this image, called, “the face of half dome”, which is one of his most famous landscape images. What makes this image unique is first the crystallised, smooth look of the image, but also the fact that he used all the tonal ranges of an image in black and white. He took inspiration through nature, and the beauty and delicacy of it, which is most likely why his most famous image is a landscape on a mountain which they climbed (him and his crew). Ansel Adams was very respectable with his images and even the journey on creating them, as he tried to inspire many photographers to capture the beauty of nature, but to also respect it, and not leave equipment anywhere.

Black and White Photography: Tonal Range | Icon Photography School

Furthermore Ansel Adams was one of the main influencers of a group called the f/64, who’s main aim within their photographs where to produce a sharp, detailed, pure image. Through his time in professional landscape imagery, him and another called Fred Archer introduced a method called the “Zone System” which is what you see above. This allows photographers “pre-visualise” their images before, while, and after taking the image. This method became very famous as during this time images where only in black and white, and creating an image with all tones, along with all an suitable image, would overall help photographers develop their craft.

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