Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Ansel Adams

Created the averaging of middle grey, which led to the auto settings on the camera. Averaging the middle grey a little to the left (pure black) or right (pure white) on the grey scale will give you a less flat photograph, rather than completely flat with middle grey.


Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist best known for his black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park.[1]

With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.

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