Seriously? Two people throwing Ansel Adams under the bus with such ease? In the name of digital photography? I don't even consider myself an Ansel Adams fan and I was still surprised.
"Great as some of Ansel's images are, many would be indistinguishable among the best work of many among us today."
How great and distinguishable will your best images be in 70-80 years? Or for that matter anybody working primarily in commercial stock photography? I would even go so far as to say that your entire body of work will be gone simply due to shortcomings of the medium and advances in technology. This has happened to vast amounts of music and cinema already in a shorter time span. It is not hard to imagine still, two dimensional photography becoming irrelevant in one or two generations. Regarding your portfolio i liked the pelican one the best because you can see the fish through the pelican beak skin.
"And I know I'm going to get some sh*t for this but if Ansel Adams were around today with the equipment he had then nobody would give a damn about him or know his name. I have met many photographers who produce better photos than Ansel Adams and that would not have been the case if they had been photographers back in his day."
If A.A. were alive today taking photos he would be using the best equipment possible, just as he chose to lug around large format gear to places nobody had ever photographed in his day. Since we are making up hypothetical situation for 2011 Ansel Adams, I believe he would have joined forces with NASA and figured out how enter the Sun as a cosmonautographer and photograph it from the inside out to save Earth from the impending doom of global warming.
Ansel Adams was able to break the mold of people's stereotypes of photography. It is because of him (and others), that a nature scenic could be considered fine art in the USA. Consider that when you are hawking your nature prints somewhere online as something worthy of being framed and displayed as art.
"I'm interested in expressing something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without." - Ansel Adams
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "DSG" <dsg@...> wrote:
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> Having just yesterday viewed three volumes by Ansel Adams; The Camera, The Negative, The Print, I wondered what kind of heretic I might be. So, Fred, it is with some relief that I read your assessment herein. Great as some of Ansel's images are, many would be indistinguishable among the best work of many among us today.
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> Probably a dangerous segue to the next item, but that said, I would welcome your comments, and comments of others to my online portfolio.
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> And I know I'm going to get some sh*t for this but if Ansel Adams were around today with the equipment he had then nobody would give a damn about him or know his name. I have met many photographers who produce better photos than Ansel Adams and that would not have been the case if they had been photographers back in his day.
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> Post your images! Promote your site!
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