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Simple steps to create a holistic experience as a landscape photographer! With @viewsbykevin / “I do not believe in one simple rule for a great shot. Photography is an art, and every photo is beautiful in its own way. However, I am into minimalist compositions, especially if they have a meaning behind them. In this regard, I think minimalism is the key to capturing stunning landscapes and the mantra I have followed since I started my journey. Having one beautiful scenery, a subject or companion for scale and a tad of instinct will help you get a solid shot. Then, while editing, the balance between nativeness and bearing my trademark on the photo is the most important to me. My shots should represent my style and keep the natural beauty without creating an artificial copy. My editing process starts by adjusting the dimensions of the photo. Basic adjustments in highlights, shadows, and contrast follow next, and then I apply slight adjustments in the tone curve to enrich the scene. Next is color grading - I like saturated coloring but still try to keep the picture as close to my memories as possible to avoid a synthetic look. I finalized the editing process with some filters to set the stage and expose the highlights of my shots. I use Photoshop to minimize disturbances if I still spot some unsettled elements. Lastly, I always compare the edited photo with my overall feed to create a holistic experience and ensure a seamless transition between pictures (See the before and after, pics 9 and 10). Concerning photography, my most significant challenge was to appreciate advice and criticism. Also, it has not always been easy to remain consistent with my style - but it made me who I am today, and I am grateful for every experience on that journey. We live in such a fast-paced environment, and everything changes so fast. But the outdoors remains my happy place - it is where I create my most valuable memories, and I want to encourage others to do the same. Go outside - enjoy the things you love the most!” 🥾🌳
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Ansel Adams Photographer, Artist & Activist
*Happy Birthday to Ansel’s ‘Monolith’!* 🏞️ “Born” on this day, April 10, 1927. Andrea Stillman’s biography “Looking at Ansel Adams” includes a wonderful chapter all about this storied photograph: “In 1992 I was in Ansel’s workroom selecting images for a prospective book of his photographs when Virginia appeared and announced that she had found a stash of home movies from the late 1920s and 1930S. With anticipation we rented a movie projector to screen them. Miraculously, one reel included footage of the trek to the Diving Board. It showed Ansel in his favorite plus fours, lugging his forty-pound pack, with a rakish fedora hat and the Keds high-top basketball shoes he favored for hiking. “The climbers struggled up…in deep snow, and when they reached the Diving Board they pulled each other up with a ludicrously thin rope. Virginia fearlessly inched out onto the sharply angled granite spur, and when she reached the tip she stood up and blithely waved. It seems appropriate that Ansel presented the very first print of ‘Monolith’ to Virginia. “Ansel was twenty-five years old when he made ‘Monolith.’ At age eighty he was able to recall the experience of making the negative, every detail as clear as it more than a half century had not elapsed. He photographed Half Dome hundreds of times, and there are many different interpretations that include moons, clouds, snow, flowers, leaves, trees, even deer and people. In 1978, during one of his last annual Yosemite workshops, he and his photographic assistant, John Sexton, contemplated Half Dome together and talked about the taking of ‘Monolith’ in 1927. According to John, Ansel laughingly confided, ‘Maybe I should just have stopped then.’” Text, film footage and Ansel Adams images are copyright ©️The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All rights reserved. John Sexton’s photograph courtesy of @johnsextonphoto. All rights reserved.