Anlysis of Ansel Adams Photography
Analysis of Ansel Adams' Photography
So, there you are at a wedding. The groom is in his sharp black tuxedo and the bride is in her beautiful white dress and they are ready to cut the largest, most elegant white cake you have ever seen. For this occasion you want to get the greatest picture and everything has to be perfect. Your try a few different angles and pick out the one that is the great and then take a few pictures. The next day, you run to the local photo store to get your prints made. The person at the counter says black and white film takes at least a week, and you are quite displeased. But you think it will take a week, so actually the pictures should come out better. So, you go back in a week and you get your pictures and you are very disappointed, the tuxedo is too dark, the cake and dress are too gray. You are thinking to yourself, what did I do wrong? The answer is quite simple; you didn’t use the Zone System. The Zone System is a powerful, creative, and easy-to-use tool for producing black and white prints. Yes, outstanding looking prints can be made just by pointing the camera at a subject and taking a picture, but the Zone System was invented to give you the security that each negative will come out exactly as envisioned.
The camera; it is the most important part of photography. Understanding how the camera works, the Zone System becomes much easier more making great negatives and prints. Point and shoot cameras are very basic. You push down the shutter button just enough for the camera to focus itself and adjust itself for the picture. Pushing down the button all the way will cause your camera to take the picture. But, what is a shutter, how does it know what to do? It’s fairly easy to understand.
There are two main parts of the camera, the f/stop and the shutter speed. These two parts are what are adjusted for the correct amount of light exposure to the negatives. The f/stop is in the camera lens. The measurements range on the type of camera you own. The higher the number, the smaller...