The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 2) by Ansel Adams
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Book Reviews of The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 2)
Book Review: Master of non digital photography
Summary: 4 Stars
If you are interested in photography and in making excellent photographs whether digital or traditional film its important to read Ansel Adams. He did the photography and the development of film and the printing and his photographs of the landscape especially known for photographing Yosemite are exquisitely perfect in black and white. In this book that is part of a series of 3 he gave us everything we need to make great photographs. Why would someone who is a digital photographer read this book? Its to understand the basics the foundation of photography. This book is The Negative and in digital photography what you get is the negative and the print together and you want to understand what you have and what you can do make that photograph or that negative in black and white photography what you want it to be what you visualized when you saw the image in real life.
The book The Negative is sometimes difficult to follow cause he was truly a Master and most of us are not so just keep reading to get whats of value to you as a reader and a photographer
This book The Negative is part of a three book series includes
The Camera
Basic Techniques of Photography that has revised edition from his student John Schaeffer
Read all these books if you are committed to excellence in your photography
JG
Book Review: The complex negative
Summary: 4 Stars
I was really interested in getting to the bottom of how Adams has developed his Zone system for exposure control. My photography instructor had alluded to it's complexities. The book explains a huge range of technical details and the thinking behind them really clearly.For those of us shooting in 35mm some of the lessons cannot be put into practice directly because pushing or pulling is limited to whole rolls of film rather than individual frames. However the insights are really valuable.
I recommend it.
Book Review: Language.
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm trying to get in the wonderfull world of photography through the well-known work of Ansel Adams but I need this three books ( The Camera, The Negative and The Print ) in Spanish. Would somebody advise if Amazon has them in this language? Besides, I can see clearly that Mr.Adams is the right one to guide every photographer knowledge.Book Review: learn the zone system
Summary: 3 Stars
Ansel Adams was a master of photography but not the most exciting storyteller , in my opinion.
This book is one that you should read as part of a complete education in photography, but there are some long sections in it. The parts of the book explaining Adams' zone system are very worthwhile and great stuff. Much of the rest of the book is only interesting if you are shooting film (not digital), as it deals specifically with darkroom processing.
Read about the zone system here or somewhere else, but learn it. If you are a film photog, read this whole book. For digital shooters, you might want to read only the sections of interest.