Ansel Adams part1

Ansel Adams Master Photographers (1983)BBC Series

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• Ansel
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• (1983)
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[tristramshandy3]

I wish I could post a black and white pic I took last week in the Arizona desert.

I bet if I posted it as an Ansel Adams picture, nobody would know it wasn't.

Viva Montaigne!

[Rangefindergeneral]

Put it on flickr and people will look and tell you if its Adams like.

[mrahonod]

Anyone know how to get a jpeg onto a glass plate negative?

[Rangefindergeneral]

I get it. :-)

but if you really wanted to do it the way I would is with a A/V projector.

[maxpin63]

For all Photoshop junkies:

Try it with film.... then you will see if you are a photographer or not.

Digital is a waste of time. Try to catch the light through a lens,upon film and bring the light back in the darkroom.

[Rangefindergeneral]

Adams, was fascinated by the future of photography and if he had lived longer would be snapping away with 0s & 1s.

He would also still be using 10x8 film too.

[Cryocaustic]

Digital will not replace large format for many years, if at all. The aesthetic of film can not be achieved on digital. Furthermore digital prints do not last nearly as long as archival silver. It's metal not ink my friend. You do not know what your are talking about.

[rustynasty143]

Photography is all about observation and imagination if you have this, you have the talent.

[ForeverAyrtonSenna]

@tristramshandy3 I don't see why your comment has so many negative votes, it's possible for someone to take a photo as beautiful as his or even better. He wasn't a godly being.

[alphaferg]

@Rangefindergeneral the only digital he would ever shoot is the digital that most do not know the phase one backs. i still dont know if he would i am not him he wanted top quality and higest resolution, you can not get as high as even 4x5 with any digital other than the phase one backs.

[rayheyheyhey]

Still images are just that, be it on film or of a sensor, all this bullshit about digital photography not being real... I'm sure if Adams would have lived in this era he would have loved his D3X or 5D or 24mp sony full frame megapixel monster!

[droidster888]

The humbleness of a true Master.

[dagrome]

In all honesty I shoot completely digital. Why? Because I don't have the money or space for my own darkroom that I could spend hours in editing my pictures. People need to stop detesting digital photography. If the pictures are good why bother rising the topic of film vs. digital?

[iSelfRecords]

HAVE YOU SEEN [ LUZ BUENO ] PHOTOGRAPHY SHE PRETTY GOOD

[NIGHTSKYE1]

well his landscapes are not bad, but i would not say there are world class, just because he is a so called pioneer does not make them any better,

[IchigoDoTa]

@maxpin63 should be avoided and is wrong, but don't be so single minded. A photographer ought to have an open mind to the world around him, to observe and not just look at things from a single perspective. Unfortunately, this is exactly how you are acting.

[IchigoDoTa]

@maxpin63 to fulfill your criteria about what makes a photographer. Certainly using film and processing films in a dark room requires a whole lot more skills and technical abilities than using photoshop, but being so narrow minded and to actually call digital a waste of time is very arrogant and rather un-artistic of you. Ansel Adams was looking forward to digital photography, and he even wished to live to experience it. Of course, photo manipulation to the point where reality is distorted

[IchigoDoTa]

@maxpin63 So are there specific rules and criteria one has to fulfill in order to be considered a 'photographer'? In today's photography field, the field is so wide. Photography is greater and accessible as ever. Let it be for studio shots, sports, documentary, photojournalism, wild life, still life for adverts etc or even just taking snap shots of family vacations! The digital era has brought to live a dream of every aspiring photographer, and none should have their visions interrupted just