Ansel Adams

Landscape Photographer Bio
Classic: Ansel Adams

• February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984
• During his early life he enjoyed taking pictures during the summer and in 1921 his first photographs were published and Best's Studio began selling his Yosemite prints the following year. At first his photos showed careful composition and sensitivity to tonal balance and he later developed into soft-focus, etching, Bromoil Process, and other techniques of the pictorial photographers. He contracted for his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, in 1927.
• He is famous for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, particularly his pictures of Yosemite National Park.
• Famous photographs:

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927
http://www.afterimagegallery.com/adamsmonolith.htm 

Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California, 1932
http://www.pc-gallery.net/exhibition_photo_c.php?pid=37

Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944
The framing of the shot allows for a picture that covers everything from the ground to the clouds in the sky. There  is value in the shot with the light hills and the dark sky and shadow. The rule of thirds is present in multiple parts of the shot and and there is a sense of symmetrical balance present as well. 
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