4. • Born
Feb
1902
• American
photographer
and
environmentalist
• Originally
studied
music
• First
first
visited
Yosemite
NaGonal
Park
in
1916
with
his
family,
father
gave
him
his
first
camera
at
the
Gme
• Following
year,
returned
to
Yosemite
with
a
beLer
camera
and
tripod
• Age
17
joined
Sierra
Club
{group
dedicated
to
protecGng
wild
placed
on
earth}
eventually
served
as
a
director.
• Opened
his
own
art
and
photo
gallery
in
San.
Fran
1933
• One
of
the
founders
of
the
magazine
Aperture
5. • Ansel
Adams
is
one
of
the
most
respected
names
in
photography.
• Produced
hundreds
of
images
that
became
familiar
across
the
world,
as
tributes
to
the
epic
landscapes
of
North
America.
• Most
well
known
for
his
innovaGve
and
brilliant
black-‐
and-‐white
photos
in
landscape
photography.
• Adams
Style:
sharp,
clear
depicGons,
not
blurry
abstracGons
in
imitaGon
of
painGngs.
6. • The
contribuGons
of
Ansel
Adams
to
the
world
of
photography
go
beyond
preLy
pictures
of
landscapes
and
natural
forms.
• Developed
“Zone
System”.
• The
Zone
System
is
a
way
to
manipulate
the
tonality
of
the
images
and
capture
the
stark
and
vivid
contrasts
in
nature
that
could
never
by
recorded
by
the
camera’s
limited
capabiliGes
• Ansel’s
technique,
bought
out
detail.
• His
wriLen
technical
photography
manuals
are
sGll
regarded
as
influenGal
and
relevant
in
the
modern
era.
18. You
don’t
take
a
Photograph,
you
make
it.
-Ansel Adams
[Discuss]
19. Part 1:
If
you
could
make
a
Photograph
of
your
surrounding
environment
in
a
posiGve
light
what
would
your
landscape
look
like?
[Discuss]
20. It
is
horrifying
that
we
have
to
fight
our
own
government
to
save,
the
environment.
-Ansel Adams
[Discuss]
21. Part 2:
If
you
could
make
a
Photograph
of
your
surrounding
environment
in
a
negaGve
light
what
would
your
landscape
look
like?
[Discuss]
22. • “Make”
14
landscape
exposures.
• 7
of
the
well
composed
images
should
aim
to
capturing
the
BeauGful
landscape
of
our
town
or
the
surrounding
area.
• 7
of
the
well
composed
images
should
make
a
statement
about
the
transformaGon
of
the
landscape.
23. Shooting assignment:
Photograph
a
Photograph
of
your
surrounding
environment
in
a
negaGve
light
what
would
your
landscape
look
like?
[Discuss]