Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very well said. He is both a craftsman and an artist who knows how to control the result he wants. It's an art he fine-tuned to a point that he has total control over his style. Now, not all people like his work, but there is no denying that he developed a style that is uniquely his. - --- SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > I am with Jim in every word he has written in this > Ansel post except...... > > In a message dated 4/22/02 9:02:47 PM Eastern > Daylight Time, jim@brick.org > writes: > > > Ansel Adams was a true master of the craft of > photography. > > .......that if there is any implication that Adams' > talent was limited to > craft, I part company. He had the vision and > imagination to know, ultimately, > exactly what he wanted to see on the silver-coated > paper he would ultimately > produce, the doggedness of purpose to devote himself > to returning time and > time again, to getting to inaccessible viewpoints > through great effort and > the patience to wait for just the moment when the > light was exactly as he > needed it to be for that particular exposure. > > This was not a photographer who ran off a few dozen > rolls of 35mm film at > each "shoot" in the hope that maybe one of them > might be good enough. He had > to carry an 8X10 view camera and glass plates, later > a smaller camera but > still cut film in a holder. And he needed to > visualize in advance just what > he needed to see in order to cap[ture it on that > plate. > > As Jim says, visit Yosemite, especially off-season > when the crowds are gone. > Then imagine a world in which there were no Ansel > Adams photographs to show > you the way and ask yourself, could I create images > that convey the awesome > sense that God lives here? > > I am astonished at some of the remarks that have > appeared here in the last > day. > > Seth LaK 9 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html