Yosemite National Park is somewhere that I have never been (living in the UK), but will always recognise and associate with the photography of Ansel Adams. In the UK, photographic students are fed Adams’ Yosemite images from an early age in an effort to teach about how to deal with difficult lighting situations. To somehow fit the stark whites of the mountain tops and the deep, dark hues of the pine forrests into the 7 stages of film latitude is a photographic skill that most will never achieve … but most of us dream of getting it right (and Yosemite is our benchmark).
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Anonymous 03.06.10 at 6:01 pm
Wow, Beautiful picture! Is that a painting of Yosemite?
Colin Hall 04.03.10 at 11:13 pm
Yosemite National Park is somewhere that I have never been (living in the UK), but will always recognise and associate with the photography of Ansel Adams. In the UK, photographic students are fed Adams’ Yosemite images from an early age in an effort to teach about how to deal with difficult lighting situations. To somehow fit the stark whites of the mountain tops and the deep, dark hues of the pine forrests into the 7 stages of film latitude is a photographic skill that most will never achieve … but most of us dream of getting it right (and Yosemite is our benchmark).