Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West and primarily Yosemite National Park.





For his images, he developed the zone system of photography, a way to calculate the proper exposure of a photograph. The resulting clarity and depth were characteristic of his photographs. His crystal clear images were also the result of his using the large format 8×10” film camera, which provided a maximum resolution, although it was among the most difficult cameras to use due to its large size, weight, set-up time, and film cost. However, it was typical of the lengths he would go to achieve his vision of perfection.



He founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, which was responsible for the founding of the Museum of Modern Art's department of photography. Adams' timeless and visually stunning photographs are constantly reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely recognizable. And as a result, his images are among the most significant and familiar contributions to the history of photography.


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams


The Ansel Adams Gallery
http://www.anseladams.com/

The History Place - The best of Ansel Adams
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/adams/

Mahirap maabot to mungkey f/64. hehehehe.. parang motolite battery  ata bgat ng camara na to.. joke..
ganda ng shot dto sa mountain w/, ano b to  smoke, clouds.. ganda..

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hamurawon wrote : Mahirap maabot to mungkey f/64. hehehehe.. parang motolite battery  ata bgat ng camara na to.. joke.. ganda ng shot dto sa mountain w/, ano b to  smoke, clouds.. ganda..

hehehe.. kuya tit. luma na pero kuha pa rin nya ang proper exposure. hindi edited with HDR or photoshop digital blending. walang filters. calculation daw talaga ang trip nya. inimbento nya para makuha ang pinaka tamang exposure sa scene na gusto nyang kunan. bwhahahaha... grabe.

This is his technique... the Zone System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_system


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Zone System and Digital photography

The Zone System can be used in digital photography just as in film photography; Adams (1981, xiii) himself anticipated the digital image. As with color reversal film, normal procedure is to expose for the highlights and process for the shadows.

Until recently, digital sensors had a much narrower dynamic range than color film, which, in turn, has less range than monochrome film. But an increasing number of digital cameras have wider dynamic ranges. One of the first was Fujifilm’s FinePix S3 Pro digital SLR, which has their proprietary “Super CCD SR sensor” specifically developed to overcome the issue of limited dynamic range, using interstitial low-sensitivity photosites (pixels) to capture highlight details. The CCD is thus able to expose at both low and high sensitivities within one shot by assigning a honeycomb of pixels to different intensities of light.

Greater scene contrast can be accommodated by making one or more exposures of the same scene using different exposure settings and then combining those images. It often suffices to make two exposures, one for the shadows, and one for the highlights; the images are then overlapped and blended appropriately[1], so that the resulting composite represents a wider range of colors and tones. Combining images is often easier if the image-editing software includes features, such as the automatic layer alignment in Adobe Photoshop CS3, that assist precise registration of multiple images. Even greater scene contrast can be handled by using more than two exposures and combining with a feature such as Merge to HDR in Photoshop CS2 and later.

The tonal range of the final image depends on the characteristics of the display medium. Monitor contrast can vary significantly, depending on the type (CRT, LCD, etc.), model, and calibration (or lack thereof). A computer printer’s tonal output depends on the number of inks used and the paper on which it is printed. Similarly, the density range of a traditional photographic print depends on the processes used as well as the paper characteristics.  

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