Ansel Adams is perhaps the most famous landscape photographer of all time. His rise to popularity truly began in the 1930’s, and he spent the majority of his career documenting the landscape of the vast American West. His high-clarity, black and white style of photography is iconic. Besides being a renowned photographer, Adams was a conservationist at heart. He devoted his life to capturing Earth’s beauty, and believed that it should be protected at all costs. Adams was influenced in part by colleagues Edward Weston and Paul Strand, with whom he later went on to found the short-lived organization Group f/64.
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Ansel Adams- 3 Untitled Images
My Work- Space Without Time, Hunger, Lonesome
There obviously are no mountains in this picture. The water is obstructed by a tree, unlike Adams', which is taken from atop several downed logs. The black treeline in the background, and the tone of the sky are the same between these two pictures, which I'm happy with.
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These two images produce very different visual effects, but in both, focus is pulled just to the upper-right of the center. The lack of viable foliage really impacted my ability to recreate this picture, but the end result is somewhat satisfying because of all the subtle similarities hidden between the differences,
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This image is pretty off-base. It's more cluttered, darker, and less crisp. The effect was ominous, whereas Adams' image felt liberating and open. In hindsight, the planes behind my house would have had a more similar variety of tree, and open space, to better match its source image.
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