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| Ansel Adams snippet |
| He and Fred Archer are credited with creating the zone system, a
technique which allows 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. |
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| Ansel Adams |
| Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an
American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of
California's Yosemite Valley. |
| Adams was also the author of numerous books about photography,
including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals (The Camera, The
Negative and The Print). He co-founded the photographic association
Group f/64 along with other masters like
Edward Weston, Willard Van
Dyke, and Imogen
Cunningham. |
| He and Fred Archer are credited with creating the zone system, a
technique which allows 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. |
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