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Ansel Easton Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be

About Me

Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron. MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Photography, Nature,wildlife,photojournalism,

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Country, Oldies, Sinatra was a good buddy of mine

Books:

Adams wrote many books about photography, including his trilogy of technical manuals (The Camera, The Negative and The Print); co-founded Group f/64 with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the zone system. The zone system is a technique for photographers to translate the light they see into specific densities on negatives and paper, thus giving them better control over finished photographs. Adams also pioneered the idea of visualization (which he often called 'previsualization', though he later acknowledged that term to be a redundancy) of the finished print based upon the measured light values in the scene being photographed.

Heroes:

Paul Strand,Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham, Jeffrey Conley, Henry Gilpin,Patrick Jablonski, Bob Kolbrener, Kerik Kouklis, Roman Loranc, Tom Mallonee, Alan Ross, John Sexton.