Quote from Ansel Adams.
Nov 4, 2023 10:57:11 #
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
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bruce
Ansel Adams
Source:
BrainyQuote.com
Don't look for me there, I ain't brainy enough.
bruce
Nov 4, 2023 11:05:37 #
Certainly how can you take a photograph? Unless I see a photograph left on the table and I pick it up.
Nov 4, 2023 11:08:02 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Certainly how can you take a photograph? Unless I see a photograph left on the table and I pick it up.
Hahahahaha yea Beb, I will remember this, save me some PP time with mice.
Thanks bro, be cool,
bruce
Nov 4, 2023 11:22:49 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Certainly how can you take a photograph? Unless I see a photograph left on the table and I pick it up.
Like many words “take” can have several meanings. Adams was an ‘artist’ so he used “make” meaning it was his end, just as an Elephant or Moses was the end that Michelangelo aimed for.
As a ‘Recorder’, my end is different. I use the phrase “take picture” as short for “capture the situation in a photo”, or “record the view in a photo”.
I’m sure you have seen a sign “Leave nothing but footprints; take nothing but pictures” - that doesn’t mean the park has hidden some pictures you should be looking for.
Nov 4, 2023 12:04:01 #
Nov 4, 2023 12:06:48 #
brentrh wrote:
Awesome 🥰 🥰Ansel told me you you make the best exposure possible then post process
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Nov 4, 2023 12:09:44 #
rehess wrote:
Like many words “take” can have several meanings. ... (show quote)
Any way still much better than the word "shoot". For the act of doing the same thing one verb is to taking in the other is shooting out.
Nov 4, 2023 13:03:33 #
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BebuLamar wrote:
Certainly how can you take a photograph? Unless I see a photograph left on the table and I pick it up.
(Did I just hear a rim shot?)
Nov 4, 2023 13:27:05 #
Nov 4, 2023 13:33:38 #
brentrh wrote:
Ansel told me you you make the best exposure possible then post process
It was the combination of exposure and film development that resulted in the best possible negative. The zone system is a sophisticated version of overexpose and under develop to decrease contrast, and underexpose and over develop to increase contrast.
Nov 4, 2023 13:34:49 #
AA "made" his photos. Take Hernandez. There was a lot of detail and subtle gradations of clouds, etc. in the original negative and resulting print. He kept working with it and when he printed his last and most famous print there is dramatic contrast between light and dark with the loss of much detail. I have copies of three different treatments from the first to the last. There are those who complained that my avatar (see photo to the upper left.) was too lacking of detail. Someone even worked to over to retrieve the details. But the dramatic contrasts of what I did to the original has elicited much positive response: "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1:5)
Nov 4, 2023 14:02:39 #
moonhawk wrote:
Right on. I can't stand the pretentious phrase "Nice capture."
Finally, someone who agrees with me!!! I thought I was the only one who has never "captured" a lion, an elephant, the moon or a constellation. I wouldn't know where to keep them or what to feed them...
Nov 4, 2023 14:05:53 #
riderxlx wrote:
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
Source:
BrainyQuote.com
Don't look for me there, I ain't brainy enough.
bruce
Ansel Adams
Source:
BrainyQuote.com
Don't look for me there, I ain't brainy enough.
bruce
Nov 4, 2023 18:16:29 #
Nov 4, 2023 18:41:45 #
My way of thinking (some will say crazy, of course): TAKE the picture the best you can, then MAKE it what you want to be.
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