photography is more than a medium..?

Ansel Adams invented the Zone System.

The Zone System allows the photographer to precisely expose the most important element in his photograph. You use a spot meter and measure every important thing in your image, bearing in mind white, black and gray objects all reflect different amounts of light but the meter thinks they're all gray--because that's what a meter is designed to do. After doing all the math, you dial in an aperture and shutter speed that will allow you to capture the scene as close to how it appears as you possibly can.

This worked for Ansel Adams, and it will work for anyone who's really familiar with relative reflectance and isn't shooting something that moves or changes. You can't shoot a basketball game with the Zone System, for instance, and you can't shoot sunsets because you don't have time to meter them.

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He was famous for his landscape photography and more importantly for using very high f - stops even the size of a pin hole as to get very close and extremely far things in frame in focus.

He took up photography to show the Americans the beauty of their natural surroundings.

Natural light. The vast majority of Adams' work is landscape photography.

He was in bed, recovering from the removal of cancer from his leg. He died of a heart attack.

i actually work with one of his grandkids at Synder Village nursing home in Metamora Illinois. Although she works in a different building, I still hear things about her. I only found out i work with her because i told my boss i wanted to be a photographer like ansel Adams and she told me about his granddaughter that works in the health center. I work in a different biulding so have never seen her.

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Many of his photos are of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite National Park. His son is a medical doctor in Fresno, Ca and has a lot of his work up in his office. My favorite is the Valley floor covered in snow.

Ansel Adams is known for his use of lighting in his black and white landscape photos.

his message was to show that the world is a beautiful place and we as humans need to preserve this gift for the future generations.

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 and died on April 22, 1984. Ansel Adams would have been 82 years old at the time of death or 113 years old today.

No, he was an only child.

Ansel Adams was a master of "previsualization" and is considered to be the inventor of the Zone system. Using these two techniques and his sometimes unique perspective, he produced negatives that were technically superior, which resulted in outstanding prints. He seldom had to manipulate his prints in the darkroom to produce the quality that he is famous for.

Ummm... the final line of the above answer is totally incorrect. Ansel was literally famous among photographers for how much time he spent in the darkroom revising his prints. The Zone System got his initial exposures correct, but that's just the starting point, not the finishing point.

Ansel Adams works on Photography

Yes, Ansel Adams had two children, Michael (born 1933) and Anne (born 1935).

When Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984, from heart failure aggravated by cancer, he left his wife, Virginia Best Adams, his two children, Michael and Anne, and five grandchildren and his puppy, carrot! Carrot was very sad:(

Photography

Just about anything he could get his hands on, including Leicas, Hasselblads and view cameras.

Ansel Adams influence artistic and cultural development by photographic images. Ansel was central figure of helping preserve the wilderness areas of Yosemite by encouraging the expansion of the National Park Services and establish photography as a major art form.