P3D Re: f/64 & Ansel Adams

[Andy Beals <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 07 Aug 1999 08:44:55 -0600, egoldste@xxxxxx (Eric Goldstein) wrote:
[...]
> A quick addendum... Adams' quest for as much DOF (but not necessarily as
> much resolution) as he could muster remained with him his entire life...
> few Ansel Adams pictures make use of selective focus and none of the
> celebrated ones to my knowledge...
[...]
> Pictorialists BTW were not all undue manipulators of photographic
> processes; [...]

And Adams was at the head of the class in terms of burning and dodging.  He 
considered exposing the negative only a single step in the entire process.  He 
is said to have lamented about how he had more negatives than he could print 
in a lifetime.

It is said:
	Is it Art?
	**** Art, Let's Dance.




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