![]() ![]() In this article, we explore some compositional devices and technical tips for adding drama to your landscape photographs. Many of us would like to be a modern Ansel Adams. ![]() No photograph could match the scene itself, but Adams worked hard as an artist and as a craftsman to distill these places into two-dimensional photographs.įor many nature photographers, Adams is still held up as the great inspiration for their love of photography. He loved the great scenic vistas-the rugged mountains and wild rivers of the West-and he tried to convey the emotion he felt when seeing special places like Yosemite Valley in his photographs. ![]() Drama! In Adams’ best-known photographs of the American landscape, one can’t escape the sense of high drama he conveyed. Looking at the body of Adams’ work, one could say that his images harken to the big, dramatic Romantic symphonies of Beethoven more than the more mild-mannered Classical chamber suites of Haydn. He famously described a negative as the score and the print as the performance. Ansel Adams was an accomplished musician, as well as maybe the finest landscape photographer of all time. ![]()
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