Calah Jones Artist Post 13

1.     Ansel Adams uses a Box Brownie #1, a Zeiss Milliflex, a 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 glass plate camera and a 4x5 camera.  Adams also used to use the Pocket Kodak and a 4x5 view.  He uses a tripod and dark cloth as accessories along with a loupe, light meter, and a cable release to get his sepia and gray scale pictures.  The front standard holds the lens, mounted on a lens board.  His camera is designed to tilt, swing, or shift the lens into various positions.  Adams camera choices allow big negatives, creative control, and the lens and film plane are adjustable allowing him to change his point of view.

2.     Adams’ work includes a wide range of subject matter including portraits, still life, architecture, and landscapes.  His unique use of camera use displays in his work.  All his work is in gray scale and tinted without color.   Many of his best and well-known photography were made in the American West and Yosemite Valley.

3.     His work is very interesting to me because it isn’t like regular photos taken with a Nikon or Canon camera.  It has multiple parts to it that make the pictures what they are.  I like how all his pictures are gray scale and are not the traditional photos with a lot of color.  Also, his use of subject matter is very simple yet very intriguing because of how it captures the detail in the landscapes and still life photos.