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Ansel Adams
Questions pertaining to the life, times, influences, bodies of work and contributions to photography of Ansel Adams. Please note images of specific photographs and critiques of the various works are not part of this category.
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What is 2 per cent of 6 billion?
Two percent of 6 billion is calculated by multiplying 6 billion by 0.02. This equals 120 million. Therefore, 2 percent of 6 billion is 120 million.
photography is more than a medium..?
What was Ansel Adams Contribution to photography?
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.
What impact did ansel Adams have on society?
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.
Why did ansel Adams pictures are important?
He took up photography to show the Americans the beauty of their natural surroundings.
What did Ansel Adams use as a light source?
Natural light. The vast majority of Adams' work is landscape photography.
What was the last photograph Ansel Adams took before he died?
He was in bed, recovering from the removal of cancer from his leg. He died of a heart attack.
Ansel Adams had five grandchildren what were there names?
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.
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.
What was Ansel Adams technique?
Ansel Adams is known for his use of lighting in his black and white landscape photos.
How did Ansel Adams communicate his message?
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.
How old was Ansel Adams when he started using a camera?
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.
When did ansel Adams get his first camera?
Ansel Adams's fame rests on his being one of the premier pictorial photographers of all time. He was enormously influential in getting "pure" photography recognized as an art form in and of itself, rather than photography trying to mimic older art forms. His career concentrated on the American West, especially the Yosemite Valley, working almost exclusively for much of his lifework in very large format black and white. His crisp, rich, stunning pictures are seen all over to this day, on walls, calendars, place mats, books - simply everywhere. Adams's photographs set the benchmark for landscapes. They speak for themselves. They are absolutely, literally brilliant.
Part of the reason for their brilliance is Adams's development of what he called The Zone System, which is a little hard to describe but is a method for exposure and development of a black and white negative to insure total tonal detail from brightest highlight to the deepest shadow. Among many other works, Adams wrote three technical books detailing his methods entitled, appropriately, The Camera; The Negative; and The Print.
Adams was one of the founding members of the f/64 school or group, (sometimes called the f/64 club), a coterie of contemporary photographers who shared similar interests and goals. That association of some of the finest photographers of their generation led directly to the creation of the Museum of Modern Art's department of photography. f/64 refers to an extremely small f/stop or aperture in the lens which is intended to help insure the greatest depth of field - sharpness in an image from very near to very far. Many of Adams greatest photographs are characterized by this kind of near-to-far wire sharpness.
Adams was also a classical pianist, an avid environmentalist, and a dedicated teacher. He helped expand the National Parks System and The Sierra Club. Because of his musical background, he was often heard to refer to the negative as the "score" and the print as the "performance." He loved to go back into his archives and reprint older negatives as he refined his techniques throughout his life. He was a powerful proponent of the practice of "visualization," wherein the photographer should try to "see" the finished print in his mind's eye. He used to send students out with a large format camera and a single sheet of film as an exercise. They only got one shot, so they had to get it right.
Ansel Adams died April 22, 1984 of heart failure aggravated by cancer. He left his wife, Virginia, children Michael and Anne, and five grandchildren.
1902 - Ansel Easton Adams born on February 20, at 114 Maple Street, San Francisco, the only child of Olive and Charles
1915 - Despises the regimentation of a regular education, and is taken out of school. For that year, his father buys him a season pass to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, which he visits nearly every day. Private tutors provide further instruction.
1916: Family Trip to Yosemite, Californina.
1925: Decides to become a pianist. Buys a grand piano.
1927: First acknowledged photograph.
1940 - Teaches first Yosemite workshop, the U. S. Camera Photographic Forum, in Yosemite with Edward Weston.
1953 he collaborated with Dorothea Lange on a Life commission for a photo essay on the Mormons in Utah
In 1962 Adams moved to Carmel, California, where in 1967 he was instrumental in the foundation of the Friends of Photography
1984 - Dies April 22 of heart failure aggravated by cancer
What is ansel adams known for?
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.
