Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California in February 20, 1902. His family was pretty wealthy and their house was right by the Golden Gate Bridge. In 1906, a great earthquake happened and threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose which marked him for life. A year later during the financial panic of 1907, the family fortune had disappeared and his father was very sad. Later on, he had trouble fitting in with the other kids at school. Ansel's father and aunt tutored him when he was out of school, but he was not very successful in the schools he was enrolled in. Eventually at Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School, he got a "legitimizing diploma" which is pretty much saying that he passed the eighth grade. He liked to go hiking or for long walks around his house and he loved nature. The national parks in the area were places where he liked to spend time. The Sierra Club was very helpful with Adams's success as a photographer. He realized that being a photographer could earn him a lot more money then his current job, a concert pianist. Adams died in 1984.
Ansel takes pictures that are dealing with depth of field and the landscape around him. My next assignment is actually taking photos like Ansel Adams did. His photography is very interesting and it deals with getting a wider shot than usual.    

Alfred Stieglitz

Stieglitz is an excellent photographer that was born in New Jersey in 1864. Him and his family moved to Manhattan in 1871 and to Germany in 1881. By then he was a student of mechanical engineering at a technical high school in Berlin. When photography first entered into his life, it was during a photo-chemistry course in 1883. At first it was mostly a technical and scientific challenge, but that changed to an artistic challenge later on. Stieglitz moved back to America in 1890 and took photography classes in New York. He also joined a photo club. Eventually, he left the club and opened a photo gallery of his own called Gallery 291. He closed the gallery in 1917 and married Georgia O'Keeffe in 1924. In 1925 Stieglitz opened the Intimate Gallery and 4 years later he opened his last gallery which was called An American Place. He stopped doing photography in 1937 because his health was failing. A few years later in 1946, Stieglitz died in New York.
His photos were mostly of peoples faces or of women. He must of taken many photos because he had to fill his galleries with them. Alfred Stieglitz had many different kinds of photos and they were all in black and white. All of the photos I take have to be in black and white unless the assignment needs it to be in color. His work is great and Stieglitz was great at what he does.

The Stop Action Assignment

In my next assignment I am supposed to take multiple photos of things moving. I have to set my camera on TV mode and make the shutter speed 1/400. The ISO can be 800 or higher and the aperture priority should be around F7. I think this is going to be a very interesting assignment and I will enjoy doing it.

Close Up Photos

These are my close up photos that I took of different plants that I found. This assignment was inspired by the photos that Imogene Cunningham took. I tried to get as close to the plants as I could.