Ansel Adams part 2

Edward Weston

Bill Brandt

Ansel Adams genre is considered landscape photography because he takes different pictures of nature, such as Yosemite. Landscape photography is a genre where a photographer only takes pictures of nature, rarely having any humans in their photographs. Instead of focusing on a human subject, instead having a subjects like landforms, weather, and ambient light. Many photographs get their influence from paintings of landscape. Photographers mainly use tools like a pinhole camera, or a large format camera with a tripod, with wide-angle lenses (25mm or 35mm). Other famous landscape photographers include Bill Brant (1904-1983) and Edward Weston (1886-1958).

When Adams was first starting as a photographer he would use the pictorialism style and was influenced by famous photographers, such as Alfred Steiglysdt. As he got older he changed his style into landscape photography ad was influenced by some landscape painters who came before him. Some of his influences were painter Albert Bierdist and Thomas Moran. Albert Bierdist was not the first landscape artist, but was one of them and was one of the most important landscape painters. There were numerous photographers who mentored Adams when he was a budding photographer, such as Imogen Cunningham, Bill Brandt, and Edward Weston. They helped sculpt him into the landscape photographer he was in his prime.

Adams brought many new ideas, concepts and styles to the photography world. Adams most important contribution is the zone system, which he worked on with Fred archer. The zone system provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. The zone system heightens or softens the contrast by the means of filtration, development, and print controls. It also darkens areas in photographs that would normally be too distracting. He also influenced future photographers on the importance of balancing nature and technology and is the photographer that all landscape photographers look up to and compare their work to.

Ansel Adams part 1

Ansel Adams was born on February 20,1902 and died on April 22, 1984. He was born in the western edition of San Francisco to a wealthy family and was an only child. During his childhood he was never a sports player he was always interested in nature by collecting bugs and going to the beach, which contributed to being an environmental activist as he was later. In school, he never fit in because he was very shy and a bit of a genius, which lead to him loving nature at a young age. He would take long walks on baker beach and hike among the dunes, which influenced his photography years later. When he was fourteen years old he got his first camera and immediately fell in love with photography.

His first photographs that were published came in 1821 for the Sierra Club. In New York 1933 Ansel first met with Alfred Stieglitz who was a famous and respected photographer in New York, he was impressed with Adams and promised him a show in 1936. However, rather than focus on his photography he decided to focus on his newlywed wife and children. He used his skill at photography in order to help make Kings Canyon a national park and met with Johnson, Carter, and ford in order to help conserve national parks. Adams died on April 22, 1984 when he was 82 years old and a year after he died a mountain in Yosemite was dedicated to him and named Mt. Ansel Adams.

Ansel Adams had a unique style of photography that he developed over time. At first he tried to follow other photographers in a pictorial style. However, he decided to create his own style with sharp focus, high contrast, good expose, and working in the darkroom. Ansel Adams was an environmental activist and took pictures of nature. Mostly taking pictures of Yosemite. He was an innovator in the photography world as he developed the zone system. The zone system was a technique where the subject in the photo would be extenuated and clear. The subject would be contracting the negative space. This allowed his photos to created depth and clarity in his phones. His first photograph that showed his individual style was Monolith. Monolith was a picture of half dome where he used a red filter to heighten the contrast and create a dramatic effect.

Ansel Adams Style

With all of these pieces I was unable to completely capture Ansel Adams style. I attempted to take Landscape photos of the presidio and I also made the pictures black and white.

Repetition, Leading Lines, and Foreground/background

Here the road serves as a leading line

Charlie serves as the foreground, while adriene serves as the background

Once again there is repetition of the bricks and they also create a leading line

There is repetition with the cars and leading lines with the hose and the lines on the wall

Here there is repetition with the stairs and railing, also my shadow creates a leading line

In this there are three leading lines with the center piece of the road and the two roads on the side. There is also repetition with the street lights and the windows. The first post is also like the foreground while the others are the background

Jordans for ISS

The ghost that was too cutty

Brendan and Julian were sitting in the computer lab when a ghost wearing a really cutty northface shows up. They thought they saw him, but weren't not sure, when they looked at where he was he dipped too cutty.

Rule of Thirds

I purposely made Beckett facing into the corner of the frame so it would make it looked like he was trapped in it

In this one I had James be one third, the window is the second third and the wall is the third third

In the Rule of Thirds we attempt to put the object or person in the corner of the screen taking up one third of the picture the other two thirds are made up of negative space.

City Scape

In this I purposely put different shapes next to each and cropped out parts of the photo that were next to each other. I also tried to make there be different shapes in the negative space

Motion photos

This motion of my mom came out extremely fuzzy with the chinese picture next to her
i took the motion photo of my dog putting her in the corner, so you can both the window and wall

I put my Grandma in the corner of the photo

Overall, motion photos are used to show the energy of the person in the picture. They are also used to created a different style, a more abstract style compared to the still photos that are seen in my potrait section.

Library photos

I tried to get the title of the book and mr. whiton in the background

Was edited on picnik with vinagrette

I tried to creat a swerving line with the chairs with Mr. Whiton at the end

I put the focus on the flower and left mr. whiton in the background

In the library photos we were supposed to take different photos in the library. I chose to do them all in different styles, so i could capture all of the different feelings in the library.

3 by 3 potraits

Besides the photoshop photo I attempted to make a connection with my models. In the first photo I had my dog look directly at me so we could see all of her emotions, in the second one I did the same thing, except zoomed up on brendan's eye. Finally, in the last one I decided to mix it up with the my model eyes turning away from me.

courtyard high straight low

I got three different angles of the courtyard and the goal of the project was to take different pictures of the courtyard from different angles and distances
-cal september 29, 2009 2:36 PM