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03/04/2005 12:45:50 PM · #26 |
I'm getting better though. Normally I see the moment of perfect light just as I get out of the car ...
Actually, I suspect that was the case here too - the first rays f the sun lancing under a really heavy covering of cloud, straight at my chosen subject ...
But at that point I hadn't even got there ...
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03/04/2005 12:56:38 PM · #27 |
And when you get there, don't spend all your time looking back. That's the secret, see?
Robt.
BOWER,
I sincerely hope so too. But that's all we can do; hope. Actually, in a perverse way what I HOPE for is that some really, really, really GOOD "anselized" pictures get voted low, and a really, really so-so picture of Half Dome in flat light wins the challenge, just so I'll have an excuse to go ballistic in the rant forum...
jejeje�
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-03-04 12:57:42.
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03/04/2005 01:17:30 PM · #28 |
has anyone heard of the ansel adams formula for the perfect picture...i've heard of it, but i don't know that it's ever been substaniated...anyone know about it?
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03/04/2005 01:24:38 PM · #29 |
The only thing that rings a bell is that Ansel maintained that a perfect B/W image would contain all the tones from purest white to richest black, with luminous modulation of all the grays between.
Robt.
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03/04/2005 01:28:03 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
The only thing that rings a bell is that Ansel maintained that a perfect B/W image would contain all the tones from purest white to richest black, with luminous modulation of all the grays between.
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Do you agree with him?
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03/04/2005 01:31:28 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Originally posted by bear_music:
The only thing that rings a bell is that Ansel maintained that a perfect B/W image would contain all the tones from purest white to richest black, with luminous modulation of all the grays between.
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Do you agree with him? |
For a full-tone B/W shot, yes. This is not to say you can't make lovely high-key, low-key, or high contrast B/W images. But assuming a detailed landscape or architectural type shot, yes I agree.
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-03-04 13:31:50.
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03/04/2005 01:35:09 PM · #32 |
I like his work...I do enjoy the surreal quality to his photos which, I'm guessing, look surreal because we don't always see brightest white to darkest black when we look around with our own eyes.
The only thing I'm wondering is, doesn't that limit the mood of your photos...when the same technique is consistently applied to most of your photos?
Just asking...
Message edited by author 2005-03-04 13:35:31.
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03/04/2005 01:41:59 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
I like his work...I do enjoy the surreal quality to his photos which, I'm guessing, look surreal because we don't always see brightest white to darkest black when we look around with our own eyes.
The only thing I'm wondering is, doesn't that limit the mood of your photos...when the same technique is consistently applied to most of your photos?
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Not really, no. Google Ansel Adams in Google Images and check out the visual differences between, say, one of his really stark Yosemite images and one of his shots like, say, "Jeffrey Pine" (I think its called). If you look close you'll see that one of them is predominately dark tones, the other predominately middle-to-light gray tones, but both contain all tones. The "mood" of the picture will derive from which tones dominate, not from whether they are all contained in the image.
It was Ansel's particular, aesthetic contention that ANY image which depended on the modulation of gray tones for its impact would benefit from the fullest possible expression of the tonal range. Certainly, even the "gray" Ansel shots are startlingly luminous when you view the actual print, though this doesn't always come across well in reproduction.
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-03-04 13:43:20.
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03/04/2005 01:43:12 PM · #34 |
Excellent reply, thanks...
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03/04/2005 02:14:11 PM · #35 |
| I would attempt to clone out the road and people all together. But some people might like them there. |
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