Why I admire Ansel Adams

[Robert Budding]

This is why I am so against people using digital photography as their first and primary means. When one of my friends picked up photography with her DigiRebel, I did everything I could to get to her to understand what she's doing... Even offering her all my supplies in the darkroom and I'd teach her how to use it.

Sadly, she never took me up on the offer. When we go together to shoot at the racetrack, she frets over why her camera decides to make the track white (it's a new polytrack). I developed my slides that night and got perfect images.

When she frets about her camera not making the right decisions, I advise her on manually exposing a stop or two less. When she responds she's too lazy, I lay my face in my hands and weep.

Don't weep. Real hacks make me feel better about my own work!

 

[Mark Mellen]

I as many have studied Ansel Adams, Weston and many of the "Greats" work in detail. I have learned much and taken away small pieces that help my work improve daily as many of us have over the years.
It is not so much the taking of the Photograph but the process "making the photograph.
Ansel Adams stands apart from others not because of so much his artistic eye which was outstanding, but his "process" from conception to print. He was without a doubt the greatest in his day and to this day as a great "teacher" of the craft the art. There are so many wonderful Photographers in this small world but very few had the complete skill as a master Crastman, Artist and teacher as AA had. He is to photography what Eivis is to Rock and Roll...