A Tour of Ansal Adams Darkroom

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZlovMptjyQ

Found that quite interesting.

std · Joined: 09 Feb 2010 Posts: 1827 Location: Bulgaria

Thanks for sharing Klaus ,
Interesting find.

I've been reading about it in his books Smile

and it's nice to see it not only from the illustrations.

LucisPictor · Expire: 2013-12-03

Thanks for the link!

shauttra · Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 778 Location: Latvia

Thanks!!!
Ansel is great!!!

rbelyell · Expire: 2014-01-31

i am of course a huge fan, and this is a great link, thanks! however, the extent of this setup does raise an interesting issue to me concerning photo manipulation.

i have never been a 'purist' when it comes to PPing digitally, though many are. one of the reasons i've never criticized digital PP is the knowledge that virtually all of our much admired film photographers engaged in extensive darkroom PPing of their own. my perspective is that photography is an art, and like artists using any other medium, inspiration begins with reality, but does not end there. where the artist ends up in his depiction of reality depends on his vision and on his discerning use of all the tools at his disposal.

with film, some of those tools reside in the darkroom; with digital some reside in photoshop or lightroom. if we do not criticize or think less of the genius of adams etc for their extensive darkroom image manipulation, why would we not extend the same theory to our digital counterparts?