Photographer notes; Ansel Adams

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

Ansel Adams, 1902-1984
American

• Best known for black and white landscapes, especially in Yosemite (see above example of El Capitan)
• Concert pianist and mountain climber who survived the 1906 San Fransisco and eventually became not only one of the world's most famous photographers, but a leading conservationist.
  

• Books:

1. Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail
2. The Camera
3. The Negative
4. The Print

• Devised the "Zone System" and coined the term "previsualization"- A photographer can use a 10 zone value scale to help chose the right camera and darkroom settings to allow them to produce an image the way they plan it (pre-visualize how it should turn out)
• Helped found Group f/64, the Sierra Club, and Aperture Magazine