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ansel admas and yosemite
Hi there,
I'm making a trip over to Yosemite in a few months and wanted to indulge my pasison for two things while I am there - photography and Ansel Adams. Can anyone tell me if they have any information on some of the exact locations Adams used for his famous photographs of the area, or if I could locate the data elsewhere? I'm a fairly accomplished photographer, but one can never stop learning from the masters, and it would be an interesting excercise to try and find the sites and see how and why he chose specific points to turn his vision into photographic masterpieces. Just as art students often spend time at museums copying the work of masters as a learning process, I sometimes think the serious student of photography can learn via the same process, locating sites, taking in the surrounds and trying to conceive what lay behind the photographer's choice of a particular spot, and of course trying to duplicate the process, which in itself can be quite an instrucitve process - often one finds that attempting to repeat the process is nowhere near as easy it may have appeared in the master photographer's output. It gives one an even greater appreciation for their efforts. Thanks....Tim |
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I'm making a trip over to Yosemite in a few months and
wanted to indulge my pasison for two things while I am there - photography and Ansel Adams. The Gallery that he and his wife Virginia used to run is still there and one of the finest photography galleries in the west ("The Ansel Adams Gallery" ... look it up on the web to see what they now carry). I would advise you to stop by there for sure, they carry current photos by several modern masters (some of whom studied with Ansel) and also fairly inexpensive reprints of some of Ansel's images, plus of course posters of his work. Can anyone tell me if they have any information on some of the exact locations Adams used for his famous photographs of the area Ansel's book "Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs" has some detailed info on maybe 8-10 of his most famous Yosemite shots, including where to go to repeat them. In addition to the many opportunities from the valley floor, there's an overlook near a tunnel on one of the entrace roads ("Clearing Winter Storm" image), there's Glacier Point (looking back toward Half Dome) and there are the waterfalls accessed from the Half Dome trailhead near Happy Isles. The problem isn't finding where he took the shots, it's getting exceptional light and shooting something that hasn't been shot several thousand times before, but it's a lovely place. If you're up for a stiff hike I recommend the hike up the back of Half Dome to the summit, about 8 miles to the top, around 5,000 ft elevation .... incredible views. Bill |
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