5:17 I think you got dodge and burn mixed up. When you dodge, it leaves the area brighter as you are stopping the light from hitting the paper. When you burn, it darkens the image as you allow more light to hit the paper. It's the opposite of a negative where more light = brighter image.

@googleminus3230

3 жыл бұрын

"How to make a "documentary" by only reading some Wikipedia pages"

@tangyorange6509

3 жыл бұрын

Google Minus lol right

@petemedcalf3474

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, correct, Dodge lightens, Burn darkens when printing from a negative.

@jackbrainassociates8806

3 жыл бұрын

photos on film I was scratching my heard that, was I doing it all wrong for 30 years! Weston was another photographer, thats like saying Picasso was another painter. We shot B&W because thats all we had and every sheet of film was precious. All in all a nice effort.

@jayabramson6702

3 жыл бұрын

Google Minus but how many people of his generation would even know who to google? I think he did a nice job of introducing Adams to people who might never hear of him otherwise.

I’m not sure Ansel used portra 400 like the film borders suggest, but I’m excited to watch the rest

@AidinRobbins

4 жыл бұрын

Description ;)

@valeriegiacobbe5254

4 жыл бұрын

Aidin Robbins 😂

@FXpro97

4 жыл бұрын

As a film photographer (i know, I sound like an elitist douchebag) it just annoys me so much. I get that its for the aesthetic, but wouldnt a basic white borders look just as good? Maybe more minimalistic I guess. Other than that I thought this video was super interesting and i learned alot, so it doesnt really matter

@valeriegiacobbe5254

4 жыл бұрын

FXpro97 I feel like for this video especially it doesn’t make sense because part of his legacy is his black and white, large format work

@AidinRobbins

4 жыл бұрын

Valerie Giacobbe haha they're definitely not accurate, just the template I already have set up from past vids. Gotta cut a few corners to get these out every week 😉

In a previous career as a commercial printer one of the jobs I has was printing the posters and books of Ansel Adams through Little Brown and Company, the publisher. There was a special high tack dense black and a grey (Ansel Adams Grey) that we used as well as other specialized materials to get the cleanest dot on a printing press. We were also using the highest dpi in the industry at the time for detail. First time through the press was the duotone pass. Let it dry then run it through again for a high gloss varnish. Let that dry. Then turn the sheet upside down and run it through the press one more time to "polish" the sheet - essential removing all of the spray powder used to keep the sheets from sticking together. Best job ever, but that was back in the late 80's. I found a picture of Ansel and Dave Gardner (Gardner Lithograph) on a press check in a drawer in the pressroom. Still got that today.

@AndyBellwestspringfield

Жыл бұрын

love this comment. super interesting.

@bobhall7257

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. I recall reading about how deeply involved AA was in the printing of his work, (other than the darkroom work of course). I have a couple of the books and I have to say: you done good! 😂

My dad was a well-known commercial photographer for over 70 years and used view cameras (the ones with the bellows) almost exclusively. His largest was a monster 16x20 Deardorf with a 5" lens, used mostly for taking really high resolution photos and transparencies of very small objects, like diamonds and jewelry. It stood about 9' tall. He used all the tricks and techniques also used by Adams (and all commercial photographers of that era) and I used to watch him work in the darkroom all the time. To a small boy it all looked like magic. I'm glad to see you taking an interest in the old masters, like Adams. My dad met him once in the 1950s, but never talked much about the encounter.

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I don't know a lot about photographer that's why I didn't know of him but seeing his work right now it looks so amazing he definitely was a legend and a master of photography

Yooo Aidin, I really enjoyed this format! I Definitely learned some important photography history and the way you present it is just perfect, it keeps the attention so well!💪🏼💪🏼

Read his autobiography about a year ago He was very talented and complex beyond his landscape photography. I have a couple reproductions of his prints in my home office

Adams began using lighter cameras, the older he got. He used a Hasselblad and tested the early Hassie models for Victor Hasselblad. In the last year of his life he used a Leica, though not exclusively. His biography is great reading, and the PBS American Masters program on Adams is excellent. It’s very instructive to go see his work in an art museum and look at it firsthand.

@Finarphin

5 ай бұрын

I'm using lighter cameras the older I get, too. I hiked the John Muir Trail with a view camera once. I'm not doing that again.

Best ever clear, concise description of Ansel Adams and several of his techniques. Excellent!

I really enjoyed your video and found a great deal of admiration for the amount of effort you put into it. You grasped and presented the concept of his work at a higher than average level. You didn't just skimm the surface, you really went pretty deep! I studied the Zone System a few years ago and was taught that Ansel Adams developed his system to a degree that was very scientific. He used spot meters to read a subject scene and took many notes that he would later use in the lab. He purchased large lots of film and paper because he knew that when doing so the materials had been made with the same batches of chemicals. He made sure his materials came from the same batches. When manufacturers produced film or paper they eventually had to use new chemicals because they were spent... but even though they used the same formulas with the same measured ingredients, the final product varied in sensitivity always giving different results in the lab. So when he set up his cameras and evaluated a scene, he took his readings and already knew what the print would look like in his mind! He really had a true visualization of the scene. Using his Zone System he would know at the time of making the exposure that he would either have to contract or expand the zones in the image (according to whether he got high contrast or low contrast readings). He used the information from the readings and used it to process the film, as well as when developing the paper. He used Spectrometers to learn about the density of the batches of film he had to ensure that he would accurately get the desired results... every single time!!! When printing his images he often wouldn't just use the tools you mentioned... he would use his hands and fingers to dodge or burn parts of his prints. He would twist and gnarl his fingers to apply what he wanted to them. I don't know if it would be worth it for you to do a little more investigation into the process of using the Zone System and maybe making a video about it? Thanks for bringing back some good memories and sharing some very awesome knowledge

Loved it man.The trend photography and videography sometimes forget the rich concepts and masters of our arts, and going back to them always makes us "level up the game" (hate that expression, maybe "developing more our arts"?) and love it more. The majority of landscape photographers pratically have a base on the form of Adams and romantic painting like David Friedrich and his "Wanderer above the sea of fog", so they do, or try to do, take less photos, they observe and apreciate more before taking a photo, it's kind of a philosophy on how to apreciate, observe and truly see nature and express how our eyes, heart and mind had a emotional connection with the scene. A slow rythim and living a full experience and love for our home (Earth), our nature. In this liquid world, where everything is so fast, everything is always quickly changing, a slow pace maybe can be all we need to live well and be at peace, that's one of the lessons I get with Adams and other landscape photographers, but hey, I have always been a nature's lover and surfer since kid hahahah.

Keep going Aidin, you’re an inspiration.

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

Your video style is getting better and better with every video man! I am addicted! ❤ and this was the best video essay i have seen on Ansel Adams so far.

Thanks for sharing your learning and analysis through his work. Open up a bunch horizons for me! Thanks mate and keep up with the videos.

That was exceedingly well put. When you started by saying “I got interested in him several weeks ago…” I literally rolled my eyes, but luckily, age has taught me humility so I kept watching, and I’m glad I did.

@AndyBellwestspringfield

Жыл бұрын

We all felt that. haha

I love the production quality of this video! and the story as well. You nailed it Aidin!!

Thank you for such an inspiring video. I already loved Adams' work before, but this in-depth look has renewed my admiration for him. And for you as well, for bringing up such important issues.

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

Best part of this video, is talking about "Visualization". I learnt that, before i do a click, wait for a minute, think about the composition and tell a story. Every pic should be like a single frame from a movie, thanks for the teaching.

Love it man, great content! I especially needed to hear the part about visualization, spray and pray far too often. Heading out for a backpacking trip this weekend, so this video was perfect timing as well!

Glad that you came across him and researched Ansel about the art of photography in the earlier years. He had inspired me in my early days of photography during the 70’s and enjoyed many of his books including, “The Negative” and “The Print”. He could only carry so many film holders with him on his trips (2 pieces of film per holder), so every image had to be composed, focussed and exposed correctly. Was lucky to see a show of his work in Toronto including his famous “Moonlight Hernandez” image which was simply stunning to see in person. He was a true master photographer and conservationist. Ansel was also a concert pianist and busted his nose during the devasting 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Great video!

I really enjoyed the concept of the video, the style of conveying information together with the slick animation and sound design was very satisfying. Thanks a lot for this great video!

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

Fantastic as always Aidin! Super cool to see the crazy amounts of work and thought that go into a photo like that. 😀

I love this! I’ve loved photography for years but never knew it’s history, thank you for this

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Your presentation is second to none.

Thanks for making this video, Aidin. It is an entertaining and concise overview of Adams’ work and process. I discovered his images in 1979 on my first visit to Yosemite and have based my own professional photographic process on his teachings ever since. By chance, I was fortunate to visit his darkroom in Carmel - unfortunately, he wasn’t there at the time but it was an experience nevertheless. It’s great that you have shared this video with your younger audience. His books, ‘The Camera’, ‘The Negative’ and ‘The Print’ are still relevant today. In fact, I believe that Ansel Adams would have been a brilliant digital photographer and shown us how to get the most from a pixel ‘negative’.

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

Great video! I’m intrigued to study him and his work more. Thanks Aidin!

Seeing the enlarger made me miss my dark room class in college - also I think you mixed the dodging and burning effects in the video but great video anyways!

LOVED your video Aidin. Keep up the amazing work. 😀

Enjoyed this video so much. Very interesting topic and your video editing makes it so easy to watch

Bro you bouta be the next one in the history of filmmaking I’ll see you there 👀

This is awesome, I had to watch this for my Art 111 class in college. Great job man.

love this video and also how you brought the conversation aspect into this

his great granddaughters went to my elementary and middle school!!

@courtalton

3 жыл бұрын

Cool! His granddaughter was my mom’s college roommate!

@robertmodalo8086

3 жыл бұрын

Cool. his grandson was my brother

@luciusalt229

3 жыл бұрын

Cool he was me!

@onedayatatime-godsministry8891

3 жыл бұрын

@@luciusalt229 😂😂😂

@ThePooper3000

2 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming that, like most middle schoolers, you guys once had to at one point do a presentation on an important historical figure; did she do a presentation on Ansel Adams?

Awesome Video. Well written. Well edited. Great presenter! You truly understand Adams and are going to become a photographer that would make him proud! Great work.

This was a beautiful essay on a wonderful photographer - man amazing video Aidin :)

Dope video man! I had a calendar with his work several years ago which was part of my inspiration for getting into photography!

Great clip and very informative. Thanks for creating 🙏🏻

Thank you this whole edit was fun to watch!

Great Aidin! Thank you very much! All the content, the infos, scenes, your editing!! Really great!!

@AidinRobbins

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

This video is absolutely phenomenal. Great work, man.

Thanks for sharing. Your observations about how Adams composed his shots was very helpful. Great video, sir

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

this has been amazing clear-concise.really found the presentation fascinating

Another enjoyable video Aidin. Really enjoyed it and learnt lots of new things. Again it left me feeling inspired to go out and make photos.

Thank you for this awesome highlights of Ansel Adam's!

Nice! Ansel Adam is one of the many people who inspired me to do photography! I love his work!

Wow Aidin! Excellent synopsis of Ansel Adam’s and his work!

Love the mood lighting of the talking head shot portions! You should do more videos like this! Great video.

I Sense more Style Breakdowns coming up real soon. Also I'm ashamed for not knowing he who really was, well Thanks for the kewl insight brother :”))

Love how much effort you put into editing this one

Good work, as always. Keep 'em coming.

Fantastic video. Really glad I stumbled upon this video. I'll have to check out the rest of your channel.

This was terrific! I wanted a swift backgrounder on Mr Adams. You nailed it. Many thanks,

Excellent video - thank you for the high quality content!

Loved This Video❤️❤️ Thanks for Making this video❤️❤️

Correction to time stamp 5:16 - 5:28: DODGE and BURN in printing a negative causes the opposite effect from exposing. Dodging reduces light on specific areas of the paper (though all those paper shapes at the end of a wire) so the paper will be bright / whiter. Burning (with the holes in stiff paper or cardboard) increases light at specific areas and causes darkening of the printed paper. Did this all this in my younger days, pain in the ars to get just right, using up loads of paper to get the final print just right. Also, IMHO, it is a lot easier to compose (visually) a photo with a larger camera under a drape than with a small one. It is so hard for me to see all the elements in a scene when one eye is glued to a view finder with light filling in the space on the sides or on the 3" back screen in the daylight. But at least I won't come hope with a backache after lugging tons of camera gear and tripod when using a smaller (FF or APS-C) camera.

There is so much I love about this ❤️

this is amazing i've learned alot of epic new things! would love to see more

Love this Aidin. Great video man!

Extremely informative and enjoyable! Thank you!

Excellent job Aiden. Thank you.

Great job Aiden, so enjoyed your documentary about Ansel Adams 👍

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

I really appreciate this type of video. Instead of another tutorial video....this is more theory. I think this way of thinking can even be applied to other current creative avenues.

Thanks for sharing this much of knowledge with us🙌

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

This was really insightful and helpful!

that slow blur effect on the old photo was incredible!

Great summary and nicely done. Thank you.

This is cool, Aidin! I learned a lot.

Love Ansel Adams! This was a great video! Had no idea on some of the stuff!

Love your thumbnails, and the Parallax effect on Ansel’s photos! You should make videos on both!

Loved this kind of video!!! Good Job ;)

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

Awesome job. I liked how you changed your studio to match the theme of the video.

Really really cool production on this video. The portra 400 border around bw photos bothered me a little ngl but literally everything else was sick. Keep it up man!

Love your videos ever since I can remember! Are you gonna do an updated what's I'm my camera bag?

You always had me convinced that Ansel shot all those on Kodak portra 400. Until the coffee kicked in and I remember that is a color film which I clearly don’t shoot enough from. Nice channel. I will give it a sub.

You are a prodigy, dude! Amazing! I also loved his work but couldn't explain why, now I know haha

Loved this video Aidin. Heard a lot about Ansel always but glad you came up and described WHY he is such a big name. Even more respect for him now.

@AidinRobbins

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you learned something!

Thank you for making this, I think a lot of photographers don’t know that much about him. By far one of the most technically developed photographers imo he understood exposure extremely well and that photo of the full moon overlooking the village in new mexico(I think) he took that without a light meter bc he forgot his. He talks about it in his three books that he published. He calculated the exposure by estimating the luminance of the moon and the cloud coverage and all these other variables.

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

@Finarphin

5 ай бұрын

He had a light meter with him in the car, but he couldn't find it in the rush.

Great video! Those photos of the waterfalls actually feature an extremely low horizon with the tops of the mountains just below the top of the frame. Same basic concept though and you're correct he uses extreme horizons to enhance his style!

Great video. You've overlooked the contributions of Peter Henry Emerson in terms of the conception of photography as an art. His landscapes had people thinking that way in late 1800s.

Love this video and was about to show to my middle school class, but I can't cause you said "hell" just once. So close to being perfect. Just something to consider for future videos.

Most informative and thought provoking.....thank you

one of your best videos, bro.

Excellent video! Very educational and enjoyable as well!

Hi Aidin nice video! Do you think you could make a behind the scenes of what your tutorials look like? like maybe what lights you use, where you put them, stuff like that

Nice video! I had a darkroom in the past and used Ansel Adams zone system for exposing photopaper.

Awesome video love Ansel Adams he’s a big inspiration of mine

Great edit! Informative and well-paced.

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

@theDanDeleon

3 жыл бұрын

Dilly VFX no thanks but wish you the best of luck.

To truly understand and appreciate Ansel Adams photography, you need to see one of his prints in person. It's literally like seeing the Grand canyon all your life in books or on TV and then you see it in real life.

Definitely learned something new today🙌

great informative video, loved it.

😊 I enjoyed your take, nice work

Thanks! Informative and made me think. Which is good!

Well done! You made the essentials understandable and presented them in an entertaining, clear and friendly way. And you've sparked interest in finding out more about Ansel Adams and discovering your own ways of taking better pictures. Maybe some of the commentators are right and there are really a few mistakes in your video ... and if so ... who cares? (I did not) Ansel Adams and his art of photography were the focus of the video and not the presenter (like almost everywhere else on KZread). Such a short video presentation can only be a "teaser" to do your own research after watching it. And your video served this purpose very well. This comment comes from someone who, decades ago, developed even more interest in analog (there was no "digital"!) slide photography (no post-processing possible!) because his jaws fell on his chest when looking at Ansel Adams' photos in a large-format illustrated book ... ("book", that is something big and flat for reading and looking at, made of printed paper; it works without batteries ...) For me Ansel Adams' pictures didn't lead to "f64", but to "ISO64" ... I just say "Kodachrome" or "Fujichrome" ... those were magic words back then ... A very slightly underexposed landscape shot in the bluish light of the Scandinavian sun, back then on Kodachrome 64 with my beloved Olympus OM2 ... the slide projected onto a white wall as big as it gets - that just knocks you out! Without having seen Ansel Adams' work, I would never have taken such photos!

i loved this video!! THANKS

The best one aidin ❤️❤️

@DillyVFXOG

3 жыл бұрын

ay i do professional film and i make really good youtube videos, if you have time could you check out my most recent video and give me some feedback? :)

Absolutely brilliant video, from start to finish 👏 👌

@AidinRobbins

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

This was great, thanks!

Very good video. I appreciate what you have done .

It’s easy to forget that with a view camera, Adams composed all his photos with the groundglass image upside-down and reversed left to right. Try that sometime!