montresor
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Golly, y'all sure woke up on this one!
Not an Ansel Adams fan; but having tried my hand at shooting landscapes in 6x7 format, I acknowledge that there's more than just craft to bringing it all together. I couldn't do it! I sucked at it! To bring order and balance to a chaotic scene is a gift. Admittedly, Adams was a hagiographer of nature. His pictures implied a sort nature-pantheism that makes some (including me) a little uncomfortable. For a different view, try Robert Adams' recent photographs he took tracing the return route of Lewis and Clark. A completely opposite view: nature as banal and devoid of numinosity. It all comes down to taste, I guess, but it seems silly to dismiss Ansel Adams' contribution just because it's on framed posters in suburban family rooms everywhere. "The propinquity of the hoi-polloi," and all...
For me, it's that darned zone system that seems so anal and time-consuming. The fact that he took what he did naturally with his eye and back-constructed it into a painstaking system is where you lose me. But then, large-format view cameras and their big honkin' lenses do have different requirements than the dinky little things most of us use here, so who am I to say?
Not an Ansel Adams fan; but having tried my hand at shooting landscapes in 6x7 format, I acknowledge that there's more than just craft to bringing it all together. I couldn't do it! I sucked at it! To bring order and balance to a chaotic scene is a gift. Admittedly, Adams was a hagiographer of nature. His pictures implied a sort nature-pantheism that makes some (including me) a little uncomfortable. For a different view, try Robert Adams' recent photographs he took tracing the return route of Lewis and Clark. A completely opposite view: nature as banal and devoid of numinosity. It all comes down to taste, I guess, but it seems silly to dismiss Ansel Adams' contribution just because it's on framed posters in suburban family rooms everywhere. "The propinquity of the hoi-polloi," and all...
For me, it's that darned zone system that seems so anal and time-consuming. The fact that he took what he did naturally with his eye and back-constructed it into a painstaking system is where you lose me. But then, large-format view cameras and their big honkin' lenses do have different requirements than the dinky little things most of us use here, so who am I to say?