1. ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams was an American photographer who is best known for his black and white photographs of Western America. The
category that his photographs best fall into is nature and landscape. Although not all of his photographs are landscape, they
still have a taste of it and a definite feeling of nature.
Adams uses a large format camera for his photographs so that they create extremely sharp focused images which then allow
him to blow them up to much larger sizes, also a lot of his pictures are in black and white.
For example, this photograph is quite a close up shot and even though it isnt a
landscape it still portrays and links the idea.
Adams' work has many different purposes. From a commerical side of printing his
photographs in calendars and postcards to also selling original prints. His photography
also helped to open National Parks. People could see that nature was changing
through Adams photographs, it was becoming difficult to find nature without any man
made features and so National Parks were opened to protect wildlife and nature.
One thing that Ansel Adams does with his
photographs is that he portrays meaning and gives us
something to think about. This is another one of
Adams photographs. This landscape photograph also
has a theme of nature, however for me personally
when i first looked at it it gave me the feeling of peace
and relaxation. I could see this through the light
underneath the dark sky, as though the grave yard
and the sky had a connection of peacefulness.
Looking at this picture several more times it also has
a very eery feeling due to again the graveyard and
the dark sky. Whichever way you look at this
photograph it still has the idea of nature.