Ansel Adams - Photographer Pt 1 (1958)

[Music] [Music] San Francisco city of space and light beside the imens Pacific [Music] here near the Golden Gate lives anel Adams musician mountainer rder teacher photographer [Music] light to Adams as to all photographers is the great medium of Revelation through its moods noon brilliance first light Dawn through the illusion of substance snow ch wood Stone and the magic of a place in a moment he conveys Universal experience [Music] perhaps music is the most expressive of the Arts however as a photographer I believe that Creative Photography when practiced in terms of its inherent qualities may also reveal endless Horizons of [Music] meaning a fine Craftsman employs different tools for different purposes item 1 8x10 View Camera 20 holders four lenses one cook convertible one 10in wide field actar one 9 in deore one 6 and 3/4 in wall and Sack wide angle item 17x17 special Panorama camera with a protar 13 1/2 in lens and five holders item 4x5 View Camera six lenses 12in kinia 8 and 1/2 in appol Lena 9 and 1/4 in appota 4in Widefield ecta delm Adon Tel photo item one hassat camera outfit with 38 60 80 135 and 200 mm lenses item one clex 35 mm camera item two Polaroid cameras item three exposure meters one SEI and two westons in case he drops one item filters for each camera K1 K2 minus blue G X1 a C5 and b f 85b 85c light balancing series 81 and 82 two tripods one light one heavy lens brush stopwatch thermometer level focusing magnifier focusing cloth Holly strobe portrait outfit 200 ft of cable special storage box for film item one ancient eight passenger limousine with 5x9 ft camera platform on top [Music] the disciplines and standards of a musician lie behind anel Adams approach to [Music] photography like every good photographer he prev visualizes his final print right here on the ground glass of his view camera or with a miniature camera right on his inner eyelid excitement over the image now gives way to precise technical reasoning with a light meter of this type he can measure the brightness of very small or very distant areas darkest Shadow eight candles per square foot light on wet sand 2,000 candles per square foot Place Shadow on Zone one high value will fall on zone 9 normal minus development indicated by such measurement he can estimate what exposure he needs now and what development later by the delicate balance between exposure and development he attains the tonal range he wants in his final image I keep a record of everything film lens filter lens extension lens aperture shutter setting above all where I've placed important values on the exposure scale and what development I will use to attain them in the negative [Music] the negative looks adequately sharp all over Shadow density is exactly on the right zones a little camera flare helped the shadow density as [Music] expected all set fingers dry [Music] dust brushed off the negative here goes for test [Music] exposure 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 the image is coming up quite well balanced [Music] in a little more exposure and full development on the next [Music] one here's the final print the Shadows come through as expected and the high values are okay once Adams has achieved the print he wants he is able simply by controlling exposure and processing to make from one negative hundreds of fine prints in a day by this technique he can produce portfolios of original prints which are in themselves works of art [Music] n