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Using a Cut-Out Card to Refine Photo Composition

Jan 22, 2012Alan2 CommentsPhoto PhilosophyAlan Ross, Ansel Adams, Photo Composition, Photograph, Photography, Viewing Card

One of the most challenging things in creating a strong image in photography is the need to find order in chaos. In the urban jungle there are wires, poles, signs, traffic and the like. In the natural world there are rocks, bushes, branches and landforms all contributing to visual mayhem. In an earlier writing I…

Choosing a Lens – How Does Focal Length Affect Your Image?

Jan 12, 2012Alan1 CommentLensesAlan Ross, Ansel Adams, Choosing a Lens, Focal Length, Photography

It comes as quite a surprise to a lot of the photographers I work with that the only thing that changes when you use a different focal-length lens is the cropping of your image! Optical aberrations aside, short focal-length, or “wide-angle,” lenses do not distort close subjects, and long focal-length, or telephoto, lenses do not…

Would Ansel Adams Shoot Digital?

Dec 30, 2011Alan2 CommentsAnsel AdamsAlan Ross, Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams Digital, Ansel Adams HDR

There has been a lot of talk on the Internet lately about whether Ansel Adams would have embraced digital photography if he were alive today. From what I can tell, most everyone seems to think that he would be enjoying both “shooting digital” and HDR. Having been his full time photo assistant in Carmel from…

Too Close to Home – Even for Ansel Adams

Dec 6, 2011Alan4 CommentsAnsel Adams, Photo PhilosophyAlan Ross, Ansel Adams, Golden Gate Bridge Photo, Photography

Removing Artists’ Block When I first moved to Carmel to work with Ansel Adams in 1974, I made several significant images within the first month or two. Then for the next five years pretty close to nothing. After I moved to San Francisco in 1979 to open my own studio, I got an assignment…

Assisting Ansel….the First Week

Aug 5, 2011Alan2 CommentsAnsel Adams

Thirty-seven years ago today marks the end of my first week as Ansel’s full-time assistant. What a week! It started as I drove my car up a wooded road in Carmel, parked under the pines, and walked apprehensively up to the front door. My knock was greeted by a beaming smile and a “How ya…

Assisting Ansel….Getting the Job

Jul 31, 2011AlanAnsel Adams

People often ask how I managed to land a job with the man who would become the most noted photographer of the 20th-century. Ansel always liked to say that “chance favors the prepared mind,” and maybe that’s what happened. Here’s the story…you can decide! After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1971, I had the good…

Adams Trust and Norsigian Group Settlement

Mar 17, 2011AlanAnsel Adams, News

JOINT STATEMENT BY THE ANSEL ADAMS PUBLISHING RIGHTS TRUST, RICK NORSIGIAN AND PRS MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC REGARDING SETTLEMENT OF LITIGATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco and Los Angeles, California March 14, 2011 On August 23,2010, The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust filed a civil complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District…

LINKS

Mar 12, 2011AlanLINKS

GALLERIES Andrew Smith Gallery. Santa Fe, next to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Masterpieces of photography. Sun To Moon Gallery. Dallas Design District. Contemporary photographers, traditional color landscapes to gelatin silver, bromoil and platinum/palladium-over-gold-leaf prints. Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite. Contemporary photographers, Ansel Adams fine prints, workshops, books, posters and the Ansel Adams’ Special Edition Prints. Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco.…