In high school I had friends who owned a lodge outside Yosemite. I would go down there and help them open it up in the spring and then visit them a couple of times in the summer. We would sneak into the park by my friend telling the rangers at the entrance we were picking up medical supplies for the lodge. Then we would do one of the day hikes like Half-dome. (sometimes the lodge actually did need supplies) One time in 1984 we were waiting on an opening for a wilderness permit (not sure which hike), so we all kind of split up for a couple of hours. I wandered over to the photography studio and hung out and listened to Ansel Adams give a talk about photographing nature. It was just a very short while after this that he passed. Someone told me later I had been present at his last informal talk in Yosemite. His talk sparked an interest in me to pursue B/W photography. I went on to become hooked on B/W photography in college and ended up the TA in the college photo lab teaching beginning students developing and working in the darkroom. This experience helped me discover a love for teaching. I spent my career as a teacher and school district administrator. So thank you Ansel for inspiring me and altering my trajectory in life.
In the early 70s, i had a chance to spend about 3 hours with a handful of other students with Ansel Adams. It was an experience that I would never forget. He certainly talked about visualization, and the influence that Alfred Stieglitz had on him. Stieglitz taught him to take chances, to break barriers. many years later, I attended a workshop in Ansel Adams's Yosemite darkroom, learning color theory from Bill Atkinson (Apple employee number 10) and Charles Cramer. Charlie is very much in the AA mode. He studied music at the Rochester School of Music. He is a very fine pianist, much like Adams. Charlie made his photography mark with dye transfer, until Kodak stopped making the chemicals. He still worked with film, until recently when he switched over to a medium format digital camera. Charlie is well worth a review on your channel.
Hey Jeff! What an incredible experience it must've been for you and very rewarding I'm sure for someone creative no matter in what type of field! I'm actually familiar with Charles Cramer's photography because I came across an article a while ago when I was reading about dye transfer, super interesting photographer and you're very right definitely worth a review :) Thank you for watching Jeff!
Great experience! I'm a climber and falling in love to Ansel's artwork since 2006, when i was student in University. Photography is my hobby. I started to learn zone system, that very rare, who learns the technique in my country, Indonesia. Moreover, here was no proper chemical to develop film, nobody sold it. Thanks God that I knew a little bit english and found an old book, "The Fundamental Photography" in library. I found a "recipe" how to make Kodak D76. At least, I and my friend made it, although we bought chemical powders one by one, then mixed them by ourselves. You're very lucky, sir, that you could learn with the maestro of tone and zone system, that i wanted it so much.
I remember a great quote from Ansel. He was an ardent environmentalist. He met with Reagan at the White House on environmental matters. After the meeting with Reagan reporters asked him how the meeting went. He replied "Mr Reagan knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"
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Nice! I especially like that fact that you gave Fred Archer as co-developer of the Zone System. Ansel Adams was an instructor at my Alma Mater, Art Center College of Design when he and Fred Archer codified the Zone System. The Zone System is a structured, repeatable encapsulation of many common techniques known by the photographers of the day. It was an exploration of why Adams couldn't capture in a print what he saw and more importantly, what he felt. Your description of the Zone System hit the high points, but it didn't discuss that Adams envisioned the print and worked backwards. He had a great understanding of the tonal range that can be represented in a good B&W print. That range is far smaller than what a normal B&W negative can capture. The trick is to come up with a negative using tonal compression and expansion that can fit in the range of the print. Exposure of the negative takes into account how it will be developed later. Since I was a student at Art Center, we dived deep into the Zone System. I used to mix up developer formulations not commercially available using the individual components. With medium format digital cameras such as the Fuji GFX-100s, the use of Photoshop and printing with printers using dedicated B&W pigment inks can rival or even surpass the best B&W prints Adams achieved.
A collection of his work came to my local museum and it was such a pleasure. I could have spent days there. What was cool was that for several images they had the copies of the same photo that he had printed early in his career and then again later. Looking at how his choices and darkroom skills changed over time was so cool. And while the images are fine on a screen, his large prints were simply astonishing
Thank you so much for this. In 2014, for my 60th birthday, I was able to drive down on a "birthday pilgrimage" to Los Angeles and go to a Getty Exhibit of 25 of Ansel Adams works. I was able to go twice; the day before my birthday and on my birthday. On my first visit I went with a fellow photographer and on my second visit I went by myself. I still recall walking into the exhibit hall and turning left, seeing the picture of the birches that you feature starting at 6:54, when you talk about composition and leading lines. I was so hoping you would share this photograph in this video, since I have to tell you, not only was I mesmerized by this photograph, by being in its presence, but it was the composition, the way he broke the visual plane in half so beautifully, which is something I learned you shouldn't do, that moved me to tears. I stood in front of this photo for a long time. Actually, for a long time, several times, on both days. Two more things about this picture during my time being in its presence: 1. It was the first photo in the exhibit that I saw when I walked in. I had never seen it before, so I think my surprise at seeing something so different from his usual landscapes shaped my reaction. 2. On my first visit, while I was talking to my friend about what moved me so about it, two other people who were at the gallery wound up joining the conversation, which turned into a fascinating discussion about the photograph, composition, and studying and learning photography. Yeah, my 2014 "birthday pilgrimage" to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to see the special Ansel Adams show was memorable, to say the least, since at the time I had only seriously been doing photography for two years. And yes, there were some of his better-known photos there too, but this print of the birches still inspires me, still moves me. Again, thank you. Also, BTW, very much enjoying your more nuanced, even more elegant video editing and formatting, as well as your presentation style. Very impressive thank you.
Wonderful post. Growing up in Scotland in the mid 80's he was a true idol. Not only with what he done, but the process of going through, what he went through.. To get it done. The books in the high school library were treasures. And I think that's important as we were a small high school on the East coast of nowhere, yet there he was. And a nod to the teachers or staff older than myself who wanted those books there for us too, eh. Another generation touched. And it's good to see so many people here. I'm in Spain now and I have my own classes, and his books in my classes.
This was a great introduction to one of the true greats of photography, Tatiana. Adams was ofcourse, a lot more than just about the zone system, which incidentally starts from the lens and ends with the print. He was a true conservastionist, when conservation of nature was not exactly fashionable nor on any US governments agenda. He was a humanist. You showed one of his photographs of the Manzanar Relocation Center for Japanese Americans. Adams was so disgusted about the treatment of Japanese Americans in the wake of the Pearl Harbour attack, that he set out to document their lives and strives in a remote inhospitable location by photographing them. He donated the colleciton to the Library Of Congress for free in 1965 with a ltter that said, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair, by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment....All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." The late great Yousuf Karsh said of Adams " an artist, a conservationist and a true friend, whose photographs remain as unsurpassed testaments to the glory of nature ." I don't think that I could better that. Thank you & sorry for the long post.
Hello hello! First of all don’t be sorry for your lovely comment it was very thoughtful and all the things you wrote do bond with what was touched by this video! I feel like Adams just like you said was a conservationist, was a humanist and overall a very sensitive soul because me too when I read about the work he did at the camps at the time it was just another layer of him that truly inspired and impressed me. To me he will always be a photography master but beyond that someone I look up to as a human being! A lot of viewers in the comment section do criticise his work and the video whilst ignoring and without really realising the great things Ansel Adams did and his kind nature with this students and honestly a lot of people he touched through his craft and his endeavours. I truly appreciate your comment and thank you for shedding some light here ✨✨
His landscapes are breathtaking. I saw his exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts years ago. I begin to fully appreciate black and white in a whole new way.
Another great video, of course. I was fortunate enough to learn how to develop and print “the Adam’s way” by one of his printers back in the 70s. One day, after a year under his tutelage, I showed him a print fresh from my darkroom. He smiled and said, “Today the student becomes the master.” My training was complete.
Wow! That is amazing Terry what a very cool and I'm sure changing experience for you as a photographer and creative, I'm so happy for you that you got to experience that and it seems like it came full circle the day you stopped being the student to become a master, thank you for sharing that :)
Thanks for this quick video. So much can be said for Adams' contributions and more of it is relevant today than many people realize. But if I had to highlight one point in your video it would be pre-visualization. Knowing what one wants in the final product is key. All of his techniques from exposure, to development to the final print, were done in service to his initial vision.
Thank you for your comment David, couldn’t agree more and that is why visualisation was something I really really wanted to touch on with this video, it’s vital in any art form! Appreciate your words and thank you for watching!
I changed how I thought about Adams and Group f64 when I twigged that they were a brand of modernism. There are a load of essays out there about this. They were very much of their time. The question is what is of our time? Ironically if you read the Group F/64 manifesto today it comes across as a plea to go back and not use cutting edge technology - as they were doing. "workers who are striving to define photography as an art form by simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods". Digital imaging has moved beyond purely photographic methods and is now closer to pictorialism. This perhaps explains the analogue resurgence. It goes on: "The production of the Pictorialist, on the other hand, indicates a devotion to principles of art which are directly related to painting and the *graphic arts*." We really do need a new set of terminology to differentiate between the action of light (purely photographic) and the action of software - without saying one is better or worse than the other and getting everyones backs up.
We don't need another terminology. We already have one. It is called Computer Generated Imagery, and I don't give a peanut how people want to swing this dead cat, it is not photography. Call it whatever you want, digital art, virtual imagery, Digital graphics, CGI etc etc but it is not photography. TBH, I 'd rather take up painting.
@@BrunoChalifour I'm satisfied that you replied in this way, so I don't have to. Of course I agree with you as I was raised with the Zone System and that particular mentality which drove the likes of Adams, Weston x3, Minor White (a personal family friend), and my father among the other's of their time. Photography is a visual art and now with digital being the more prominent device enabling us to capture images, the gestalt is changed. I still see, expose, compose and manipulate my process from lens, through camera settings into my new, safer and less chemical, darkroom. I do not overly rely on excessive post production but the programs only ever enable you to craft a singular vision. I may not like overly manipulated images but it does not make them somehow illegitimate or less a photograph. Up to a point that is.
You’ve made a timeless introduction to a timeless artist, Tatiana. I really admire the constant high quality of your videos. Easily amongst the best content here on YT. Peace to you too…
I've been waiting for this video from you! So sweet! Yes you have dropped nuggets of Adams inspired wisdom over the last year. Great work iterating it.
It was not so much the taking of the photos apart from metering for the shadows, but what he did in the darkroom that produced the results. The large format gave him the detail, but the way he dodged and burned was genius.
I had no idea Ansel created the zones system. That system was my "ah-hah" moment back when I was studying photography and lighting, and became an essential part of my thought process when taking photos. So thanks Ansel and thank you for diving into his work.
Thanks TH! Your conspectus of Adams' life, work, technique, was wonderfully comprehensive. Incredible that you could do this, and include some discussion as well, within about 15 minutes.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your words and yes it is quite a task ahah but I always try my best not to waste video time with boring or otherwise non-important details :)
Great video! Ansel Adams is undeniably great as a photographer and artist. My first photobook was an Ansel Adams book and the amount of care he took in making his compositions was astounding. Taking my time and really thinking about the scene and how to best expose and frame it to convey different feelings is something I have been trying very hard to do well in my work.
Thank you so much Reimann for your comment and honestly I literally try to do the same just thinking carefully of what the scene conveys is definitely a key and establishing in a way a relationship with what you see! One of the first photobooks I ever came across was an Ansel Adams one or of his pictures :)
While I don't agree with many of Adam's political views, his photographic concepts are spot-on. As a darkroom technician primarily, when I go out to make images, I follow his guidelines on exposure and composition. And much like him, often I photograph the same thing many times to create the strong image I want to convey. Outdoor light is dynamic; It changes every minute of the day. Buildings or landscapes stay fixed, but light moves across them. Adam's was the MASTER of the capture of light, the essence of photography. After 55 year, I'm beginning to learn...
I am deep in a similar rabbit hole, far past the event horizon and I know for a fact I will be spending the rest of my life trying to share to others what photography has done for me. If I don’t lose my mind before I get there due to obsessing over sacred geometry in compositions, the legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (the triforce vs the exposure triangle), Time itself, - and how the Lord of The Rings Trilogy is responsible for me spending the lockdown in New Zealand + another 3.5 years. I am now back from the upside down world in New Brunswick, not NZ. I feel like I just “unlocked” photography after having a camera in my life every day since 2003. I have 60k photos in Lightroom but I having shared a photo online since December 2021. In fact I have at least 33 photos I love already from the month of April and its only the morning of the 5th. I have a fresh coffee, it snowed last night, I think the days photo theme will be “reflecting black & white”.
Ansel's photos, just like any great photos we've come to enjoy and admire, were as much a result of the spiritual as anything else, if not more so. This, I believe, is an aspect not highlighted often because it's not so clear as to what one means when they say spiritual and also because of the aversion to partisan religious connotations. There is something essential to the human being that even strives to define, recognize and acknowledge beauty and that which is awesome. Regardless of the genre there is always an interplay between the spiritual and the material as represented in shadow and light. It is what brings drama and other expressions that are meaningful to human beings. It can be cultivated, as Adams did, not only as a photographer but also as a musician an likely as a human being.
Yes it does and its a fantastic one to observe honestly, its interesting that a musician and a photographer can have a lot in common when it comes to practising their craft even though they're fundamentally different! Thank you for watching :)
@@TatianaHopper Even the videos on RUclips point out the similarities of the cultures. There are those like yourself who focus on the art and others who focus on the gear, and the same with music.
I will carefully watch this soon! We cannot forget the entire f-64 Group which included Imogene Cunningham, Lange, Weston, and Van Dyke. Or can we not begin with Adams without giving a nod to Stieglitz and that bridge between, Paul Strand. Tis, only a quick brush stroke so I've left a lot out. Adams, Weston and Minor White were devoted users of the Zone System, which I had to learn when I started. It wasn't a question as a child, my father insisted.
I really don't give Adams enough credit even being of our greats - But without him Photography today would not be what it is today. I hope one day my Landscape work would be as wonderful and adventurous as his own!
I think sometimes because we do live in an era where everything is so accessible and easy in a way we don't really understand or maybe sometimes appreciate the efforts people like Adams did back in the day when things weren't so easy ahah in a way its absolutely normal but it also in a different way can make you more appreciative of the advantages we have today! And honestly keep putting in the effort and work from a place of passion and patience and you'll be happy with what you're doing :)
I very much enjoyed this Tatiana, I've been a fan of Adam's work since I first started learning photography in the late 70's and had an opportunity to take a course on the Zone System at a local tech college in the mid 80's, it really made me appreciate his work and photography in general even more. 🙌🙂
Wow that's amazing Rich I would've loved to study in depth the zone system I think I would learn a lot because I feel it connects to so many different elements of photography not just necessarily exposure. Super happy for you and glad you appreciate his work and the video! Thank you so much for watching :)
I recognized the magnificent & masterfully captured by the maestro Yosemite that I was lucky enough to visit! However it’s pronounced yow-seh-muh·tee with a ‘tee’ on the end. Love your content! Just discovered it. Thank you for your work! 🙏
Great video. I recently started learning film photography and discovered your channel. I'm learning a lot, your contest is very interesting and well done. Thanks! 😍
Thank you so much Alba! Glad you're enjoying the channel and hope you enjoy the ride of film photography it can definitely be really fun, the best of luck & keep shooting film 😊
When we look at Ansel Adams work we generally look just to his iconic well known images and see none of the more commercial work that he did to support the large body of well known landscape works and hence in my opinion tend to understate his well rounded abilities as a photographer. I would really like to see more of his commercial work including his colour works bought to a higher level of attention.
Dear Tatiana, i really enjoyed your video about ansel adams! It shows deep understanding and interest of the topic. I just have a short question? Which font did you use for your labeling in the video. It looks magnificent! Thanks in advance.
Another excellent video:) He truly was one of the masters of his craft and as one of your other viewers has pointed out he was also instrumental, along with other master photographers of their day, in helping Dr Edwin Land perfect his Polaroid system.
Very informative. May I suggest increasing the amplification of your recordings? It's a bit low. Your voice projection is fine. It's the recording that's a challenge to amplify on small audio devices.
@@TatianaHopper Ansel Adams work is the reason I took up photography, although I don't do Landscpases much but I am always inspired by him. Thanks once again.
An excellent insight into another one of the great photographers :) As well as being involved in instigating the f/64 group and developing his zone system he was also, along with a few other professional photographers of his era, instrumental in helping Dr Edwin Land perfect his Polaroid system. I feel that his ‘Parmesan Print’ series are not given enough prominence; perhaps a little too cheesy for some? ;)
Thanks so much for this amazing video! I loved how you really focused on his artistic vision, and would have loved to hear more of it. I wouldn't have minded if it was a 30 min video. :) Can you talk about Martin Munkacsi some time?
Thank you so much really appreciate it and yes that's exactly what I tried doing focusing on his art! And about Martin I think I might include him in a future series on the channel... its going to take me time but I will :)
Nice video( from a fellow pianist and photographer neither to the same level as Ansel but he wasn't distracted by RUclips haha ) just one quick point I think "Yosemite" is usually pronounced "Yoh-sem-eee-tee", best wishes Mark
Thank you so much for your words and ahah I'm sure Ansel would've loved RUclips if it existed in his time! About Yosemite - I know it now, what a bummer I had done research and watched a whole podcast and a few videos but I think because in a few videos I watched people were also foreign they mispronounced Yosemite and I ended up mispronouncing it to! So anyways, I'll definitely be more careful next time! Best wishes to you Mark :)
@@TatianaHopperMany of Yosemite’s place names were given by the men of the Mariposa Battalion, who entered Yosemite Valley in 1851 to round up the Ahwahneechee Indians and deport them to a reservation. Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, who traveled with the Battalion, questioned the captured Ahwahneechees about their names for the Valley’s natural features. Some of their words he found too difficult to pronounce, so he substituted a Spanish or English word with roughly the same meaning. Other names were invented in a more random fashion. The name Yosemite itself is from the Indian word “uzumate,” which meant grizzly bear. The Indian tribe that lived in the Valley were called Yosemites by Caucasians and by other Indian tribes because they lived in a place where grizzly bears were common and they were reportedly skilled at killing the bears. The Mariposa Battalion named the Valley after the “Yosemite Indians” whom, ironically, they’d been sent there to evict. In a further twist, the Indians didn’t call themselves Yosemites; they called themselves Ahwahneechees, and they called the Valley “Ahwahnee” or “place of a gaping mouth.” -- Moon.com
@@dougmacmillan1712 Which book do you have? Still that's awesome, I actually found an old brochure and business card (Mortensen school of photography) in one of my Mortensen books. He honestly doesn't get the credit he deserves; most people hop on Adams and Steichen as a starting point.
I enjoyed the video, I have always liked Ansel Adams' work. However, I didn't quite pick up the answer to why he changed photography. Should the title not be "How Ansel Adams Changed Photography?" Did I miss something? Was there a conscious effort by him to change the art of photography? Or is it just the case that his style and methods changed photography in which case it is "how he changed Photography". Pedantic I know but the words have very different meanings.
Yes he changed photography. Other's changed it afterwards, other changed it before. I do appreciate his work and approach, however I definitely lean towards Robert Adams and other photographers in the New Topography movement (as far as landscape photography goes) They all have a place in photography. Ansel was one approach, there are many.
You may like to check out Brett Weston, in some ways, better than his father Edward. Interestingly Brett, was included in the very first Group f-64 exhibition at the De Young Museum in 1932, no small accomplishment for anyone, BUT Brett was 21 at the time!
@@BrunoChalifour True it’s arguable and makes for fine discussions over brandy and good evenings. I was fortunate to just listen to some of those discussions between my father, Tom Murphy and Minor.
Adams' photos were no more "real"* than the pictorialists. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is one of the most concrete examples of this. He made numerous prints over the years, with great variance. The most famous version of it looks little like his initial versions. I'd guess that this is closer to the reality with most of his prints, the famous ones anyway. *The idea that photography is real is a false one. People think of it as real because the images are of real objects., but we shape their presentation with our choices as photographers and the camera does not see as we do. We do ourselves, and photography itself, no favour by calling it real. In some instances, photos can be a reasonable facsimile of reality, but not only might they not be, there is no reason to think they should be. Photography is for documentation, expression, memory and art; in single-mindedness or in any combination we choose. BTW, I took a look at your work and it is lovely. I especially like the image of the man in the streetlights. Very evocative
Hey there! Thank you so much for watching and for your thoughtfulness and wow actually quite timely I was writing a video yesterday in which I kind of touched on realism in photography as well because to a certain degree it can't be an objective realist capture of the world when there's manipulation involved, the way the camera is set, pointed in a certain way... colour or black and white... it all involves a certain subjectivity which is nothing more than filtering reality so in a way is it really real what we so call "realism" that's why I would never use that word to describe my photography but I can understand Adam's and Weston's perspectives and of course I will quote them in a video about their work but go as far as say that I would 💯 agree, I probably wouldn't so yes on the wave as you there! And thank you so much for your lovely comment about my work, I appreciate it!
@@BrunoChalifour That is amusing. In regards to photography, what is "real" would be as close to what one actually observed, within the parameters of basic perception.* So the lighting is probably the biggest thing here that doesn't represent what the light was when Adam's tripped the shutter. If one looks at his original prints of the image, they make much more sense from a natural light perceptive. His prints over the years show a changing view and his most famous version is an impossible lighting condition. *A camera captures the light reflected through, and focused by the lens onto film or a sensor. Humans capture moving images which they blend into the idea of a single image, filtered through perception, mood, interest, etc. Our "picture" is a composite printed on mouldable plastic.
@@ltlbuddha There's actual footage of Adams being interviewed on the side of the highway in Hernandez, NM a few decades after he took the famous photo. He himself said at one point: "My picture isn't real, in the sense of tone... It's real optically but its much richer and deeper (in) value..." as he grins at the interviewer. ruclips.net/video/d_Ar5ZPuKUM/видео.html
Thank You for the video…. I have a special request and I will be thankful if you can achieve it Is it possible for you to do a video about (( Sean Tucker )) Well he is a photographer I can describe in few words (( Highly Artistic, A light chaser, His way of shooting reflects the beauty of our world and finally he is an honest artist))….
Hello there! Thank you so much for watching and really appreciate the suggestion Sean is a really nice guy at least he comes across like that in his videos and the brief opportunities I had to speak with him I definitely retained that impression! Let's see what happens :)
COCKY STATEMENT ALERT AHEAD. Ansel didn't change photography. He just happened to be the person photographers paid attention to because nobody else was promoting his/her work at the time. I know my comment may sound rude, but the fact is, his work isn't entirely the be all and end all of photography in his genre. He was just the person who had his work out there, covering subjects of interest. Research for the person who started the oversaturated work of HDR and promoted it to the masses. In another 30 years they too will labelled as the Father or Mother of HDR photography. Back in the days, Elvis had the look, the voice and the moves but I bet there was someone out there much better. Elvis was labelled with numerous titles because he put himself out there. We didn't know any better because we didn't hear about other artists of his time. Don't get me wrong, I admire the work of Ansel Adams but I cringe when people claim him to be the reason why they photograph or that his work was amazing......it was just photography nobody else was showing at the time.
Did you mean to title this video as 'How Ansel Adams Changed Photography. It's not as if he set out to change photography. He was an innovative. No doubt.
In high school I had friends who owned a lodge outside Yosemite. I would go down there and help them open it up in the spring and then visit them a couple of times in the summer. We would sneak into the park by my friend telling the rangers at the entrance we were picking up medical supplies for the lodge. Then we would do one of the day hikes like Half-dome. (sometimes the lodge actually did need supplies) One time in 1984 we were waiting on an opening for a wilderness permit (not sure which hike), so we all kind of split up for a couple of hours. I wandered over to the photography studio and hung out and listened to Ansel Adams give a talk about photographing nature. It was just a very short while after this that he passed. Someone told me later I had been present at his last informal talk in Yosemite. His talk sparked an interest in me to pursue B/W photography. I went on to become hooked on B/W photography in college and ended up the TA in the college photo lab teaching beginning students developing and working in the darkroom. This experience helped me discover a love for teaching. I spent my career as a teacher and school district administrator. So thank you Ansel for inspiring me and altering my trajectory in life.
Amazing video, thanks. Also the use of a view camera allows you to play with the focus plane and get deeper dof
In the early 70s, i had a chance to spend about 3 hours with a handful of other students with Ansel Adams. It was an experience that I would never forget. He certainly talked about visualization, and the influence that Alfred Stieglitz had on him. Stieglitz taught him to take chances, to break barriers. many years later, I attended a workshop in Ansel Adams's Yosemite darkroom, learning color theory from Bill Atkinson (Apple employee number 10) and Charles Cramer. Charlie is very much in the AA mode. He studied music at the Rochester School of Music. He is a very fine pianist, much like Adams. Charlie made his photography mark with dye transfer, until Kodak stopped making the chemicals. He still worked with film, until recently when he switched over to a medium format digital camera. Charlie is well worth a review on your channel.
I envy you. I’ve seen footage of him running those Master classes ... I would have loved to attend one.
Hey Jeff! What an incredible experience it must've been for you and very rewarding I'm sure for someone creative no matter in what type of field! I'm actually familiar with Charles Cramer's photography because I came across an article a while ago when I was reading about dye transfer, super interesting photographer and you're very right definitely worth a review :) Thank you for watching Jeff!
wow awesome
Great experience!
I'm a climber and falling in love to Ansel's artwork since 2006, when i was student in University.
Photography is my hobby. I started to learn zone system, that very rare, who learns the technique in my country, Indonesia. Moreover, here was no proper chemical to develop film, nobody sold it. Thanks God that I knew a little bit english and found an old book, "The Fundamental Photography" in library. I found a "recipe" how to make Kodak D76. At least, I and my friend made it, although we bought chemical powders one by one, then mixed them by ourselves.
You're very lucky, sir, that you could learn with the maestro of tone and zone system, that i wanted it so much.
I remember a great quote from Ansel. He was an ardent environmentalist. He met with Reagan at the White House on environmental matters. After the meeting with Reagan reporters asked him how the meeting went. He replied "Mr Reagan knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"
Sorry no telegram.
This was a scam comment @michaelcase it wasn't me, I've just reported it to RUclips and I'm trying to sort it out, I will never ask you or anyone on here to text me on some application or etc and I'll always announce giveaways through my official instagram or through a proper video on the channel. Stay safe and thank you!
I knew it was. Thanks very much.
Nice! I especially like that fact that you gave Fred Archer as co-developer of the Zone System.
Ansel Adams was an instructor at my Alma Mater, Art Center College of Design when he and Fred Archer codified the Zone System. The Zone System is a structured, repeatable encapsulation of many common techniques known by the photographers of the day. It was an exploration of why Adams couldn't capture in a print what he saw and more importantly, what he felt.
Your description of the Zone System hit the high points, but it didn't discuss that Adams envisioned the print and worked backwards. He had a great understanding of the tonal range that can be represented in a good B&W print. That range is far smaller than what a normal B&W negative can capture. The trick is to come up with a negative using tonal compression and expansion that can fit in the range of the print. Exposure of the negative takes into account how it will be developed later. Since I was a student at Art Center, we dived deep into the Zone System. I used to mix up developer formulations not commercially available using the individual components.
With medium format digital cameras such as the Fuji GFX-100s, the use of Photoshop and printing with printers using dedicated B&W pigment inks can rival or even surpass the best B&W prints Adams achieved.
I believe Ansel would have loved Lightroom and Photoshop.
A collection of his work came to my local museum and it was such a pleasure. I could have spent days there. What was cool was that for several images they had the copies of the same photo that he had printed early in his career and then again later. Looking at how his choices and darkroom skills changed over time was so cool. And while the images are fine on a screen, his large prints were simply astonishing
Thank you so much for this. In 2014, for my 60th birthday, I was able to drive down on a "birthday pilgrimage" to Los Angeles and go to a Getty Exhibit of 25 of Ansel Adams works. I was able to go twice; the day before my birthday and on my birthday. On my first visit I went with a fellow photographer and on my second visit I went by myself. I still recall walking into the exhibit hall and turning left, seeing the picture of the birches that you feature starting at 6:54, when you talk about composition and leading lines. I was so hoping you would share this photograph in this video, since I have to tell you, not only was I mesmerized by this photograph, by being in its presence, but it was the composition, the way he broke the visual plane in half so beautifully, which is something I learned you shouldn't do, that moved me to tears. I stood in front of this photo for a long time. Actually, for a long time, several times, on both days.
Two more things about this picture during my time being in its presence:
1. It was the first photo in the exhibit that I saw when I walked in. I had never seen it before, so I think my surprise at seeing something so different from his usual landscapes shaped my reaction.
2. On my first visit, while I was talking to my friend about what moved me so about it, two other people who were at the gallery wound up joining the conversation, which turned into a fascinating discussion about the photograph, composition, and studying and learning photography. Yeah, my 2014 "birthday pilgrimage" to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to see the special Ansel Adams show was memorable, to say the least, since at the time I had only seriously been doing photography for two years.
And yes, there were some of his better-known photos there too, but this print of the birches still inspires me, still moves me.
Again, thank you.
Also, BTW, very much enjoying your more nuanced, even more elegant video editing and formatting, as well as your presentation style. Very impressive thank you.
Wonderful post. Growing up in Scotland in the mid 80's he was a true idol.
Not only with what he done, but the process of going through, what he went through.. To get it done.
The books in the high school library were treasures.
And I think that's important as we were a small high school on the East coast of nowhere, yet there he was.
And a nod to the teachers or staff older than myself who wanted those books there for us too, eh. Another generation touched.
And it's good to see so many people here.
I'm in Spain now and I have my own classes, and his books in my classes.
This was a great introduction to one of the true greats of photography, Tatiana. Adams was ofcourse, a lot more than just about the zone system, which incidentally starts from the lens and ends with the print. He was a true conservastionist, when conservation of nature was not exactly fashionable nor on any US governments agenda. He was a humanist. You showed one of his photographs of the Manzanar Relocation Center for Japanese Americans. Adams was so disgusted about the treatment of Japanese Americans in the wake of the Pearl Harbour attack, that he set out to document their lives and strives in a remote inhospitable location by photographing them. He donated the colleciton to the Library Of Congress for free in 1965 with a ltter that said, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair, by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment....All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." The late great Yousuf Karsh said of Adams " an artist, a conservationist and a true friend, whose photographs remain as unsurpassed testaments to the glory of nature ." I don't think that I could better that. Thank you & sorry for the long post.
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First of all don’t be sorry for your lovely comment it was very thoughtful and all the things you wrote do bond with what was touched by this video! I feel like Adams just like you said was a conservationist, was a humanist and overall a very sensitive soul because me too when I read about the work he did at the camps at the time it was just another layer of him that truly inspired and impressed me. To me he will always be a photography master but beyond that someone I look up to as a human being! A lot of viewers in the comment section do criticise his work and the video whilst ignoring and without really realising the great things Ansel Adams did and his kind nature with this students and honestly a lot of people he touched through his craft and his endeavours. I truly appreciate your comment and thank you for shedding some light here ✨✨
@@BrunoChalifour Thank you for this information.
He is timeless, when I first found out about him I genuinely thought his photos were taken recently
That's amazing and see its exactly what I was saying in the video about being timeless, the qualities are all there to stand the test of time :)
His landscapes are breathtaking. I saw his exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts years ago. I begin to fully appreciate black and white in a whole new way.
Another great video, of course. I was fortunate enough to learn how to develop and print “the Adam’s way” by one of his printers back in the 70s. One day, after a year under his tutelage, I showed him a print fresh from my darkroom. He smiled and said, “Today the student becomes the master.” My training was complete.
Looks like TH has a good share of heavy hitters watching her channel.
Wow! That is amazing Terry what a very cool and I'm sure changing experience for you as a photographer and creative, I'm so happy for you that you got to experience that and it seems like it came full circle the day you stopped being the student to become a master, thank you for sharing that :)
Thanks for this quick video. So much can be said for Adams' contributions and more of it is relevant today than many people realize. But if I had to highlight one point in your video it would be pre-visualization. Knowing what one wants in the final product is key. All of his techniques from exposure, to development to the final print, were done in service to his initial vision.
Thank you for your comment David, couldn’t agree more and that is why visualisation was something I really really wanted to touch on with this video, it’s vital in any art form! Appreciate your words and thank you for watching!
I changed how I thought about Adams and Group f64 when I twigged that they were a brand of modernism. There are a load of essays out there about this. They were very much of their time. The question is what is of our time?
Ironically if you read the Group F/64 manifesto today it comes across as a plea to go back and not use cutting edge technology - as they were doing. "workers who are striving to define photography as an art form by simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods". Digital imaging has moved beyond purely photographic methods and is now closer to pictorialism. This perhaps explains the analogue resurgence. It goes on: "The production of the Pictorialist, on the other hand, indicates a devotion to principles of art which are directly related to painting and the *graphic arts*." We really do need a new set of terminology to differentiate between the action of light (purely photographic) and the action of software - without saying one is better or worse than the other and getting everyones backs up.
We don't need another terminology. We already have one. It is called Computer Generated Imagery, and I don't give a peanut how people want to swing this dead cat, it is not photography. Call it whatever you want, digital art, virtual imagery, Digital graphics, CGI etc etc but it is not photography. TBH, I 'd rather take up painting.
@@BrunoChalifour I'm satisfied that you replied in this way, so I don't have to. Of course I agree with you as I was raised with the Zone System and that particular mentality which drove the likes of Adams, Weston x3, Minor White (a personal family friend), and my father among the other's of their time. Photography is a visual art and now with digital being the more prominent device enabling us to capture images, the gestalt is changed. I still see, expose, compose and manipulate my process from lens, through camera settings into my new, safer and less chemical, darkroom. I do not overly rely on excessive post production but the programs only ever enable you to craft a singular vision. I may not like overly manipulated images but it does not make them somehow illegitimate or less a photograph. Up to a point that is.
You’ve made a timeless introduction to a timeless artist, Tatiana. I really admire the constant high quality of your videos. Easily amongst the best content here on YT. Peace to you too…
Thank you so much Jacob, much appreciated and peace always to the both of us :)
Thanks!
Thank you so much Kevin ❤
9:50, that pic is sick , master piece
I've been waiting for this video from you! So sweet! Yes you have dropped nuggets of Adams inspired wisdom over the last year. Great work iterating it.
Thank you so much James, appreciate the kindness in your comment and really glad you enjoyed the video!
It was not so much the taking of the photos apart from metering for the shadows, but what he did in the darkroom that produced the results. The large format gave him the detail, but the way he dodged and burned was genius.
I had no idea Ansel created the zones system. That system was my "ah-hah" moment back when I was studying photography and lighting, and became an essential part of my thought process when taking photos. So thanks Ansel and thank you for diving into his work.
@@MakersTeleMark Or have a little notebook.
Thank you so much! 💫
Adams co- devised the Zone System along with Frederick (Fred) Archer.
Thanks TH! Your conspectus of Adams' life, work, technique, was wonderfully comprehensive.
Incredible that you could do this, and include some discussion as well, within about 15 minutes.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your words and yes it is quite a task ahah but I always try my best not to waste video time with boring or otherwise non-important details :)
Great video! Ansel Adams is undeniably great as a photographer and artist. My first photobook was an Ansel Adams book and the amount of care he took in making his compositions was astounding. Taking my time and really thinking about the scene and how to best expose and frame it to convey different feelings is something I have been trying very hard to do well in my work.
Thank you so much Reimann for your comment and honestly I literally try to do the same just thinking carefully of what the scene conveys is definitely a key and establishing in a way a relationship with what you see! One of the first photobooks I ever came across was an Ansel Adams one or of his pictures :)
While I don't agree with many of Adam's political views, his photographic concepts are spot-on. As a darkroom technician primarily, when I go out to make images, I follow his guidelines on exposure and composition. And much like him, often I photograph the same thing many times to create the strong image I want to convey. Outdoor light is dynamic; It changes every minute of the day. Buildings or landscapes stay fixed, but light moves across them. Adam's was the MASTER of the capture of light, the essence of photography. After 55 year, I'm beginning to learn...
Thank you so much Tatiana. Your videos are amazing and so insightful. I’m so glad I found you!
Thank you so much Eileen! Welcome aboard the channel!
I am deep in a similar rabbit hole, far past the event horizon and I know for a fact I will be spending the rest of my life trying to share to others what photography has done for me. If I don’t lose my mind before I get there due to obsessing over sacred geometry in compositions, the legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (the triforce vs the exposure triangle), Time itself, - and how the Lord of The Rings Trilogy is responsible for me spending the lockdown in New Zealand + another 3.5 years. I am now back from the upside down world in New Brunswick, not NZ. I feel like I just “unlocked” photography after having a camera in my life every day since 2003. I have 60k photos in Lightroom but I having shared a photo online since December 2021. In fact I have at least 33 photos I love already from the month of April and its only the morning of the 5th. I have a fresh coffee, it snowed last night, I think the days photo theme will be “reflecting black & white”.
5:55 - the light on the waterfall on overall contrast is very nice.
7:12 - the light on the grazing cow is very VERY nice..
Ansel's photos, just like any great photos we've come to enjoy and admire, were as much a result of the spiritual as anything else, if not more so. This, I believe, is an aspect not highlighted often because it's not so clear as to what one means when they say spiritual and also because of the aversion to partisan religious connotations. There is something essential to the human being that even strives to define, recognize and acknowledge beauty and that which is awesome. Regardless of the genre there is always an interplay between the spiritual and the material as represented in shadow and light. It is what brings drama and other expressions that are meaningful to human beings. It can be cultivated, as Adams did, not only as a photographer but also as a musician an likely as a human being.
Great video. I never knew that Adams played piano. The connection between music and photography apparently goes back to the beginning.
Yes it does and its a fantastic one to observe honestly, its interesting that a musician and a photographer can have a lot in common when it comes to practising their craft even though they're fundamentally different! Thank you for watching :)
@@TatianaHopper Even the videos on RUclips point out the similarities of the cultures. There are those like yourself who focus on the art and others who focus on the gear, and the same with music.
I will carefully watch this soon! We cannot forget the entire f-64 Group which included Imogene Cunningham, Lange, Weston, and Van Dyke. Or can we not begin with Adams without giving a nod to Stieglitz and that bridge between, Paul Strand. Tis, only a quick brush stroke so I've left a lot out. Adams, Weston and Minor White were devoted users of the Zone System, which I had to learn when I started. It wasn't a question as a child, my father insisted.
I have seen his work hanging in Galleries and his printing is incredible.
I am yet to see but I'm sure I will be amazed by his skill for sure!
Another great video from you. I am so happy when I see another one of your videos hit my feed.
aww thank you so much Andy! Appreciate the love! All the best to you and thank you for supporting the channel :)
I'm lucky to have 3 prints from a portfolio done by Ansel to help purchase Cassel Rock State Park in honor of my great uncle, Russell Varian.
Lucky you indeed! :)
that was excellent, thank you. im definately going to look more into his work
I have the huge book Landsapes of the West with Ansels wonderful photos.
I really don't give Adams enough credit even being of our greats - But without him Photography today would not be what it is today.
I hope one day my Landscape work would be as wonderful and adventurous as his own!
I've been to some of the places Adams photographed, and his photos look better.
I think sometimes because we do live in an era where everything is so accessible and easy in a way we don't really understand or maybe sometimes appreciate the efforts people like Adams did back in the day when things weren't so easy ahah in a way its absolutely normal but it also in a different way can make you more appreciative of the advantages we have today! And honestly keep putting in the effort and work from a place of passion and patience and you'll be happy with what you're doing :)
An absolute stellar video, T! Such in-depth research is a wonderful way to gain insight into one of the foundational photographers to study!
Thank you so much Hunter, so glad you enjoyed the video and appreciated the information & tone, cheers!
I went to Yosemite in 2021..........beautiful.
I bet! Would love to visit one day too :)
I very much enjoyed this Tatiana, I've been a fan of Adam's work since I first started learning photography in the late 70's and had an opportunity to take a course on the Zone System at a local tech college in the mid 80's, it really made me appreciate his work and photography in general even more. 🙌🙂
Wow that's amazing Rich I would've loved to study in depth the zone system I think I would learn a lot because I feel it connects to so many different elements of photography not just necessarily exposure. Super happy for you and glad you appreciate his work and the video! Thank you so much for watching :)
I recognized the magnificent & masterfully captured by the maestro Yosemite that I was lucky enough to visit! However it’s pronounced yow-seh-muh·tee with a ‘tee’ on the end. Love your content! Just discovered it. Thank you for your work! 🙏
Thank you so much Dmitriy appreciate it and the tip ;)
I seen the dodge and burn markup of a flat image of Moonrise Over Hernandez! Incredible light manipulation!!!
Great video. I recently started learning film photography and discovered your channel. I'm learning a lot, your contest is very interesting and well done. Thanks! 😍
Thank you so much Alba! Glad you're enjoying the channel and hope you enjoy the ride of film photography it can definitely be really fun, the best of luck & keep shooting film 😊
amazing video made me really slow down & appreciate your concept ! keep great work (no pressure) !
Thank you so much Corentin, appreciate your comment!
You are so cool!! I’m so glad I discovered your page. Thank you!!
Thank you! Welcome aboard! ✨
Just found your channel, you do great work. Thank you and keep it up!
I've just found your channel and I'm loving it, thank you so much for your fantastic insight!
Thank you so much Alex!
When we look at Ansel Adams work we generally look just to his iconic well known images and see none of the more commercial work that he did to support the large body of well known landscape works and hence in my opinion tend to understate his well rounded abilities as a photographer. I would really like to see more of his commercial work including his colour works bought to a higher level of attention.
One of your best. Interesting and informative. Thanks.
Thank you so much Geoff! Much appreciated! :)
Dear Tatiana,
i really enjoyed your video about ansel adams! It shows deep understanding and interest of the topic. I just have a short question? Which font did you use for your labeling in the video. It looks magnificent! Thanks in advance.
Love your passion for the subject and easygoing style. Reminds me of the early Art of Photography videos. Keep em coming!
Thank you so much Joseph! Really appreciate it and definitely I'll keep them coming! 💫
Another excellent video:)
He truly was one of the masters of his craft and as one of your other viewers has pointed out he was also instrumental, along with other master photographers of their day, in helping Dr Edwin Land perfect his Polaroid system.
Very informative. May I suggest increasing the amplification of your recordings? It's a bit low. Your voice projection is fine. It's the recording that's a challenge to amplify on small audio devices.
Thank you for your feedback Osiris, I’ll have that in consideration :)
Thank you for such a great video. One can learn so much from this.
Thank you so much for watching!
@@TatianaHopper Ansel Adams work is the reason I took up photography, although I don't do Landscpases much but I am always inspired by him. Thanks once again.
been looking forward to this one - thanks :-)
I'd recommend "400 Photographs"- a cracking curation of his work.
Thank you so much for watching, glad you enjoyed it :)
And yes that book is amazing I recommended it in the description!
Thank you very much!
You do an amazing job with these videos and I always end up learning something new. Well done!
Thank you so much I really appreciate it! 💫
This is AMAAAAZING! 🔥❤️
Thank you Dani ❤❤
Good video. It seems like you boiled it down to its essence. Thanks.
Appreciate your comment Jim, glad you enjoyed the video! Cheers!
best youtube channel!!
Thank you so much!!! 😊
I enjoyed this video very much. Please, continue. I am a new subscriber and look forward to what is coming.
Thank you so much Beat and welcome to the club, hope you enjoy the ride :)
Fantastic video, subscribed! 😀 🙏
What a fabulous video. Liked and subscribed.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it and welcome aboard :)
I enjoyed the video it was very informative but really enjoyed your speaking voice and that's why I'm subscribing to your channel
Thank you so much Dennis!
I love videos like this. I can see you are educated in art. :)
Thank you so much, appreciate your words and glad you liked the video :)
Good video, thank you. Subscribed and liked. 🙂
Thank you!
Great great video, inspiring!
Thank you so much!
He was a photographic alchemist. Nice video by the way.
Indeed! Couldn't agree more, thank you so much for watching!
Beautiful video
My Sensei🙏
"yoh-SEM-it-ee" 😉
Thank you! 😉
Not an intuitive pronunciation from the spelling.
Well done!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video :)
Thank you so much Levy! :)
An excellent insight into another one of the great photographers :)
As well as being involved in instigating the f/64 group and developing his zone system he was also, along with a few other professional photographers of his era, instrumental in helping Dr Edwin Land perfect his Polaroid system.
I feel that his ‘Parmesan Print’ series are not given enough prominence; perhaps a little too cheesy for some? ;)
Excelente video como siempre
Un abrazo fuerte desde Santo Domingo Tatiana
Muchas gracias Ivan, un abrazo muy fuerte para ti también!
@@TatianaHopper hay que hacer uno de Gary Winograd
I had to turn the volumn all the way to 11 to hear you
Great vid, Ansel is a true master. I have a strange question. What font are you using, its really nice.
Thank you so much Drew! Appreciate it, the font I use called VIP and honestly I found it quite randomly on the interwebs ahah
Great video!
Thank you Stephen!
Love your Videos. so much beautiful content.
Thank you so much Jesus! :)
Thanks so much for this amazing video! I loved how you really focused on his artistic vision, and would have loved to hear more of it. I wouldn't have minded if it was a 30 min video. :) Can you talk about Martin Munkacsi some time?
Thank you so much really appreciate it and yes that's exactly what I tried doing focusing on his art! And about Martin I think I might include him in a future series on the channel... its going to take me time but I will :)
Another Great video!
Thank you so much Demetrios! :)
Amazing !
Thank you! ☺
always great
Appreciate it and cheers for the super thanks :)
Nice video( from a fellow pianist and photographer neither to the same level as Ansel but he wasn't distracted by RUclips haha ) just one quick point I think "Yosemite" is usually pronounced "Yoh-sem-eee-tee", best wishes Mark
Thank you so much for your words and ahah I'm sure Ansel would've loved RUclips if it existed in his time! About Yosemite - I know it now, what a bummer I had done research and watched a whole podcast and a few videos but I think because in a few videos I watched people were also foreign they mispronounced Yosemite and I ended up mispronouncing it to! So anyways, I'll definitely be more careful next time! Best wishes to you Mark :)
@@TatianaHopperMany of Yosemite’s place names were given by the men of the Mariposa Battalion, who entered Yosemite Valley in 1851 to round up the Ahwahneechee Indians and deport them to a reservation. Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, who traveled with the Battalion, questioned the captured Ahwahneechees about their names for the Valley’s natural features. Some of their words he found too difficult to pronounce, so he substituted a Spanish or English word with roughly the same meaning. Other names were invented in a more random fashion.
The name Yosemite itself is from the Indian word “uzumate,” which meant grizzly bear. The Indian tribe that lived in the Valley were called Yosemites by Caucasians and by other Indian tribes because they lived in a place where grizzly bears were common and they were reportedly skilled at killing the bears. The Mariposa Battalion named the Valley after the “Yosemite Indians” whom, ironically, they’d been sent there to evict. In a further twist, the Indians didn’t call themselves Yosemites; they called themselves Ahwahneechees, and they called the Valley “Ahwahnee” or “place of a gaping mouth.” -- Moon.com
Now you gotta do a Video about William Mortensen; the antithesis of Ansel and the f64 club.
ahahaha yes! Oh my absolutely!
Absolutely! I have a book on Mortensen's work in my library, not far from an autographed Ansel Adams book.
@@dougmacmillan1712 Which book do you have? Still that's awesome, I actually found an old brochure and business card (Mortensen school of photography) in one of my Mortensen books. He honestly doesn't get the credit he deserves; most people hop on Adams and Steichen as a starting point.
Very very good video. Really enjoyed it! :) Sadly your voice audio is kinda quiet.
I’ll pay more attention to that next time :)
I enjoyed the video, I have always liked Ansel Adams' work. However, I didn't quite pick up the answer to why he changed photography. Should the title not be "How Ansel Adams Changed Photography?" Did I miss something? Was there a conscious effort by him to change the art of photography? Or is it just the case that his style and methods changed photography in which case it is "how he changed Photography". Pedantic I know but the words have very different meanings.
@@BrunoChalifour Thanks for the detailed response.
Thank you..... :-)
Thank you Max!
New sub! Liked 🙏😮👍
Great vid
Thank you John!
Yes he changed photography. Other's changed it afterwards, other changed it before. I do appreciate his work and approach, however I definitely lean towards Robert Adams and other photographers in the New Topography movement (as far as landscape photography goes) They all have a place in photography. Ansel was one approach, there are many.
Good video
Thank you Eric!
Volume balance issues for me
yo-sim-mah-tee 😉
lovely video. subbed.
Thank you ☺️
You may like to check out Brett Weston, in some ways, better than his father Edward. Interestingly Brett, was included in the very first Group f-64 exhibition at the De Young Museum in 1932, no small accomplishment for anyone, BUT Brett was 21 at the time!
@@BrunoChalifour True it’s arguable and makes for fine discussions over brandy and good evenings. I was fortunate to just listen to some of those discussions between my father, Tom Murphy and Minor.
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Adams' photos were no more "real"* than the pictorialists. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is one of the most concrete examples of this. He made numerous prints over the years, with great variance. The most famous version of it looks little like his initial versions. I'd guess that this is closer to the reality with most of his prints, the famous ones anyway.
*The idea that photography is real is a false one. People think of it as real because the images are of real objects., but we shape their presentation with our choices as photographers and the camera does not see as we do. We do ourselves, and photography itself, no favour by calling it real. In some instances, photos can be a reasonable facsimile of reality, but not only might they not be, there is no reason to think they should be. Photography is for documentation, expression, memory and art; in single-mindedness or in any combination we choose.
BTW, I took a look at your work and it is lovely. I especially like the image of the man in the streetlights. Very evocative
Hey there! Thank you so much for watching and for your thoughtfulness and wow actually quite timely I was writing a video yesterday in which I kind of touched on realism in photography as well because to a certain degree it can't be an objective realist capture of the world when there's manipulation involved, the way the camera is set, pointed in a certain way... colour or black and white... it all involves a certain subjectivity which is nothing more than filtering reality so in a way is it really real what we so call "realism" that's why I would never use that word to describe my photography but I can understand Adam's and Weston's perspectives and of course I will quote them in a video about their work but go as far as say that I would 💯 agree, I probably wouldn't so yes on the wave as you there!
And thank you so much for your lovely comment about my work, I appreciate it!
@@BrunoChalifour That is amusing.
In regards to photography, what is "real" would be as close to what one actually observed, within the parameters of basic perception.*
So the lighting is probably the biggest thing here that doesn't represent what the light was when Adam's tripped the shutter. If one looks at his original prints of the image, they make much more sense from a natural light perceptive. His prints over the years show a changing view and his most famous version is an impossible lighting condition.
*A camera captures the light reflected through, and focused by the lens onto film or a sensor. Humans capture moving images which they blend into the idea of a single image, filtered through perception, mood, interest, etc. Our "picture" is a composite printed on mouldable plastic.
@@ltlbuddha There's actual footage of Adams being interviewed on the side of the highway in Hernandez, NM a few decades after he took the famous photo. He himself said at one point: "My picture isn't real, in the sense of tone... It's real optically but its much richer and deeper (in) value..." as he grins at the interviewer.
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@@michaelclark9762 Thanks
Don't you mean, how?
Heeee-Heeee! sorry Tatiana but it's Yosemi- tee 😂
Thank You for the video….
I have a special request and I will be thankful if you can achieve it
Is it possible for you to do a video about (( Sean Tucker ))
Well he is a photographer I can describe in few words
(( Highly Artistic, A light chaser, His way of shooting reflects the beauty of our world and finally he is an honest artist))….
Hello there!
Thank you so much for watching and really appreciate the suggestion Sean is a really nice guy at least he comes across like that in his videos and the brief opportunities I had to speak with him I definitely retained that impression! Let's see what happens :)
a very good video...but the final e of Yosemite is pronounced. It sounds like Yo-sem-it-ee with accent on the sem. A very small matter.
Knowledge makes great images not equipment.
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COCKY STATEMENT ALERT AHEAD. Ansel didn't change photography. He just happened to be the person photographers paid attention to because nobody else was promoting his/her work at the time. I know my comment may sound rude, but the fact is, his work isn't entirely the be all and end all of photography in his genre. He was just the person who had his work out there, covering subjects of interest. Research for the person who started the oversaturated work of HDR and promoted it to the masses. In another 30 years they too will labelled as the Father or Mother of HDR photography. Back in the days, Elvis had the look, the voice and the moves but I bet there was someone out there much better. Elvis was labelled with numerous titles because he put himself out there. We didn't know any better because we didn't hear about other artists of his time. Don't get me wrong, I admire the work of Ansel Adams but I cringe when people claim him to be the reason why they photograph or that his work was amazing......it was just photography nobody else was showing at the time.
@@BrunoChalifour Thank you for the reply, I do appreciate your views and agree.
Did you mean to title this video as 'How Ansel Adams Changed Photography.
It's not as if he set out to change photography. He was an innovative. No doubt.