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Happy Birthday Ansel Adams!

Ansel Adams was born on this day in 1902.
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Happy birthday Ansel Adams!

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Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

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  • Photoshop... darkroom, same thing.  Ansel would manipulate the image entering his camera, then spend a dozen hours further manipulating the image in the darkroom.    There was a lot of gaudy over-processing around in Ansel Adams' day as well, such as hand-tinting photos with color, and it had about as much lasting appeal as today's latest fads will.  Anyone fool can drag sliders in an editing program and make an image look wacky.  Overcoming the limitations of a single exposure to make a scene look more like what we perceive onsite, or to influence a result without having the adjustments take over and distract from the subject of the photo... those skills are a little more uncommon.

  • Ok so I had to look up your photo details. =P Funny how things resurface in the streams after a number of years.

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