Scott W wrote:
> On Jan 4, 7:24 am, George Kerby <ghost_top...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 1/4/08 10:28 AM, in article
>> 4ffa7a36-bfdf-4a14-b369-a1f0450dd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Scott W"
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>> <biph...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Jan 4, 6:13 am, "Gordo" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Very true. Just think of what Ansel Adams did to his prints in the
darkroom.
>>>> Lots of manipulation.
>>> Take a look at the group AA helped formed.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_f/64
>>> The photos the OP linked to are the type that Adams was fighting
>>> against with his own photography.
>>> "Group f/64 limits its members and invitational names to those workers
>>> who are striving to define photography as an art form by simple and
>>> direct presentation through purely photographic methods"
>>> Scott
>> Right.
>>
>> E. How did Adams meet the darkroom challenges?
>> In addition to trying combinations of various papers and developers
(see
>> technical aspects), he engaged in "rather intricate dodging and
burning."
>> This means he increased (burning), or decreased (dodging) the light
from the
>> enlarger through the negative to the photographic paper to achieve the
>> balance of values he visualized. In this case he also used cropping.
Because
>> he wanted all five prints to be precisely the same size, and he had to
crop
>> (cut off) the right side of three of the prints to eliminate a
distracting
>> shape, he had to crop all five. He says this attention to small detail
is a
>> matter of his "desire for perfection."
>
> The dodging and burning that Adams did is very different then the
> images the OP gave us the link to. When Adams was done you have a
> photo that looked like the scene he shot,
If the sky is black to you, the grass is gray, etc.
Allen
he did not add in fake mist
> and fog to give his photos a fairy tale look.
>
> Scott
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