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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Large Format / May 2008Ansel Adams - Yosemite
A good article with some phots: http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/travel/27journeys.html?hp I'll be in Yosemite for 4 days this summer, though mostly not where AA trekked. Cheers, Alan.  Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. > A good article with some phots: > http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/travel/27journeys.html?hp > > I'll be in Yosemite for 4 days this summer, though mostly not where AA > trekked. AA didn't trek far from the roads the roads. Enjoy! > AA didn't trek far from the roads the roads. Enjoy! Wasn't that EW(?): "Anything more than 50ft from the road is not photogenic." From what I read, AA scrambled all over the place - mule in tow. Mule packing camera, glass plates, tripod, iron fry pan, 30 lb canvas tent, 20 lb axe, 2 dozen eggs, 5 lb bacon, sack of flour, sack of potatoes ... SignatureNicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters http://www.darkroomautomation.com/index2.htm n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com >> AA didn't trek far from the roads the roads. Enjoy! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > tripod, iron fry pan, 30 lb canvas tent, 20 lb axe, > 2 dozen eggs, 5 lb bacon, sack of flour, sack of potatoes ... I think you are right. I was wrong. >>> AA didn't trek far from the roads the roads. Enjoy! >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I think you are right. I was wrong. Clearly neither of you has read *California and the West* by Charis Wilson, E. Weston's model, lover, wife, and ex-wife. Most folks - me included - would not think of Lake Ediza even today as being with 50 feet from the road. May I respectully suggest that you both read this book and then - and only then - return to the subject at hand. > Clearly neither of you has read *California and the West* by Charis > Wilson, E. Weston's model, lover, wife, and ex-wife. Most folks - me > included - would not think of Lake Ediza even today as being with 50 feet > from the road. May I respectully suggest that you both read this book and > then - and only then - return to the subject at hand. I'll Google Earth it. May I respectULLY suggest you suck an egg? >> Clearly neither of you has read *California and the West* by Charis >> Wilson, E. Weston's model, lover, wife, and ex-wife. Most folks - me [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > I'll Google Earth it. May I respectULLY suggest you suck an egg? sure, I will...if that gets you reading *California and the West* so that you can thereby gain a better appreciation of both Adams and Weston than you obviously currently have, you having made the statements you have. > > AA didn't trek far from the roads the roads. Enjoy! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > tripod, iron fry pan, 30 lb canvas tent, 20 lb axe, > 2 dozen eggs, 5 lb bacon, sack of flour, sack of potatoes ... Brett Weston. SignatureReality is a picture perfected and never looking back. >>> AA didn't trek far from the roads the roads. Enjoy! >> Wasn't that EW(?): "Anything more than 50ft from the road [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Brett Weston. "Anything more than 50ft from the road > is not photogenic." Glad to see someone give credit to the correct Weston. I've pretty much lived (photographed) by his credo since my 8x10 days. At my current age and health I still adhere to it with my current DSLR "stuff". Best, Dave On 4/28/2008 10:48 AM Dave spake thus: >>>> AA didn't trek far from the roads the roads. Enjoy! >>> Wasn't that EW(?): "Anything more than 50ft from the road [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > lived (photographed) by his credo since my 8x10 days. At my current age > and health I still adhere to it with my current DSLR "stuff". Which of course doesn't make his (Weston's) assertion any less absurd. I suppose in his case the only excuse one could make is that he was always able to find photogenic stuff that close to the road. I've stood in the very place where AA planted his tripod here in the Berkeley hills (for his shots of UC Berkeley looking over the bay), and believe me, it's a hell of a lot more than 50 feet from any road. SignatureThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Attributed to Winston Churchill > On 4/28/2008 10:48 AM Dave spake thus: > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Berkeley hills (for his shots of UC Berkeley looking over the bay), and > believe me, it's a hell of a lot more than 50 feet from any road. Adams was part mountain goat in his younger years. Scared the cr*p out of friends and family. I envy you your Berkley location. (Born in Oakland BTW) It is kind of a long schlep from NY though. =;~) Brett W shot virtually all his stuff using an 11x14 camera. I think carrying that and needed accessories is above and beyond. Of course he (and I) was (are) seeking photogenic subjects which are easily accessible. DUH Best, Dave PS - Spent over 2 years shooting from bedroom window due to health. Restrictive? Yes, but what I could handle. Made a lot of pretty good bird pictures. To each his own. PPS - Curious. Did you take a large format set up with you to the Adams location? On 4/29/2008 10:19 AM Dave spake thus: > I envy you your Berkley location. (Born in Oakland BTW) That's where I am now. I get to watch all the photogenic industrial stuff disappear, to be replaced by new-age yuppie crap. > PPS - Curious. Did you take a large format set up with you to the Adams > location? No, sorry to say I only brought one of them newfangled "miniature" cameras, 35mm or some such. Will schlep a *real* camera there someday ... SignatureThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Attributed to Winston Churchill > No, sorry to say I only brought one of them newfangled "miniature" > cameras, 35mm or some such. Oh those little things? What are they called, Leekers, something like that? > Will schlep a *real* camera there someday ... With the way things are going you will have to get a permit, maybe be frisked by a grumpy and ignorant federal security agent, and maybe still pay a fee. Ya gotta look nonprofessional. Maybe a cell-phone camera, eh? Or I can point to some stealth pinhole cameras including the Mouth Camera and believe it or not, the a.shole Camera. See, the human body has only two voluntary adjustable exterior apertures. OK, some will argue three. > PS - Spent over 2 years shooting from bedroom window due to health. > Restrictive? Yes, but what I could handle. Made a lot of pretty good bird > pictures. To each his own. Did not Jimmy Stewart do that in "Rear Window"? And in the world of reality, did not W. Eugene Smith do the same thing in NYC? Signature.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 13:55:01 up 42 days, 18:57, 3 users, load average: 4.18, 4.19, 4.22 >> PS - Spent over 2 years shooting from bedroom window due to health. >> Restrictive? Yes, but what I could handle. Made a lot of pretty good bird [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > And in the world of reality, did not W. Eugene Smith do the same thing in NYC? Yes, but Stewart was shooting Raymond Burr whom he suspected of having murdered his (Burr's) wife. I only shot birds and squirrels. Not nearly as exciting. As for reality, I thought (think) that it was Alfred Stieglitz who shot NYC streets from his window, but I certainly could be mistaken. (Being one, I'm also a fan of Smith's work.) Best, Dave > >> PS - Spent over 2 years shooting from bedroom window due to health. > >> Restrictive? Yes, but what I could handle. Made a lot of pretty good bird [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Best, > Dave Stieglitz made awesome imagery from his studio window looking at the NY skyline and opposite windows of adjacent buildings. I believe they were platinum and platinum palladium prints which have and have depth of tone that silver prints are hard pressed to match. SignatureReality is a picture perfected and never looking back. > As for reality, I thought (think) that it was Alfred Stieglitz who shot > NYC streets from his window, but I certainly could be mistaken. (Being > one, I'm also a fan of Smith's work.) You are not exactly mistaken. Gene Smith did it, probably with a 35mm camera. And Stieglitz did it with an 8x10. Signature.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 20:55:01 up 43 days, 1:57, 3 users, load average: 4.62, 4.40, 4.29 >Gene Smith did it, probably with a 35mm camera. A lot and they are quite good. JD |
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