While I’m not much into New Year’s resolutions, I’m giving myself a goal to get into the darkroom more this year, and I’ve been doing some digging around in my files of as-yet unprinted images. And there are quite a few! The digital age has allowed me to experiment with images of interest and I’m…
Alan Ross Photography Masterful Images
Alan Ross Photography Masterful Images Alan Ross is a renowned photographer whose unique vision combines traditional photographic methods with today’s technology. He worked side-by-side with Ansel Adams as his photographic assistant, and was personally selected by Ansel to print his Yosemite Special Edition negatives. Alan is a sought-after teacher who inspires professionals and amateurs to…
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Using a Cut-Out Card to Refine Photo Composition
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…
Custom Private Workshops
Overview For the ultimate photographic learning experience, join Alan Ross in his Santa Fe studio or in your own photographic workspace for a one or two-person workshop tailored specifically to your needs and aspirations. These hands-on sessions can range from a one or two-day “crash course” covering a specific aspect of photography, to a five-day…
Location Workshops
Iconic photographers like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston found inspiration in the visually stunning and diverse landscapes of the American west and southwest. Their exquisite images immortalized such wonders as Big Sur, Yosemite National Park, the eastern Sierra and the historic regions of Utah, the Four Corners and Santa Fe. Gain inspiration and insight from…
Choosing a Lens – How Does Focal Length Affect Your Image?
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?
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
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…