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[Agonum]

How much you know about everything! It never ceases to amaze me. I mean it.

I concur!

 

[zinniabooklover]

Thank you for sharing what you know
I admire this because I know about myself that this is not my forte))))

So I decided to refresh my memory regarding what I could remember about the Zone System. I got this from Wiki:

"The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.[1] Adams described the Zone System as "[...] not an invention of mine; it is a codification of the principles of sensitometry, worked out by Fred Archer and myself at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, around 1939–40."[2]

The technique is based on the late 19th-century sensitometry studies of Hurter and Driffield. The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. Although it originated with black-and-white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black-and-white and color, negative and reversal, and to digital photography."

It was hilarious. I got up to the bit about '... the principles of sensitometry ..." and had 16 nervous breakdowns ("here comes your 19th nervous breakdown" - the Rolling Stones). I don't know what sensitometry is and I don't want to know! I'm not even doing a very good job of pronouncing the damn word, lol.

Anyway, that's me and my non-science brain!

 

[hope]

Yes, exactly. It’s an interesting event! I’m sure it’s hard to grasp the scale of it from photos alone. Have you been there?

I wasn't there. I didn't even think of going there)))) it turns out there are air tours to the site of the fall.

 

[Agonum]

Also Ansel?

 

[zinniabooklover]

Also Ansel?

Yes. All of the photos in that little batch are by him.

 

[hope]

So I decided to refresh my memory regarding what I could remember about the Zone System. I got this from Wiki:

"The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.[1] Adams described the Zone System as "[...] not an invention of mine; it is a codification of the principles of sensitometry, worked out by Fred Archer and myself at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, around 1939–40."[2]

The technique is based on the late 19th-century sensitometry studies of Hurter and Driffield. The Zone System provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. Although it originated with black-and-white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black-and-white and color, negative and reversal, and to digital photography."

It was hilarious. I got up to the bit about '... the principles of sensitometry ..." and had 16 nervous breakdowns ("here comes your 19th nervous breakdown" - the Rolling Stones). I don't know what sensitometry is and I don't want to know! I'm not even doing a very good job of pronouncing the damn word, lol.

Anyway, that's me and my non-science brain!

 

[hope]

= ??? The only difference is that one of them have eyebrows?

I agree with the comment about eyebrows

 

[zinniabooklover]

Really old (2013) review of an Ansel Adams photo exhibition.

"However, there is one important thing to note about every single photograph in the exhibition: all of them were manipulated. When printing, he would deliberately alter the exposure times of various sections of a photograph, accentuating the drama of the picture. With this, he likened a photographic negative to a composer’s score, while the performance is the photographer/printer’s interpretation and reaction in the darkroom. He is able to change how the negative is exposed, just like a composer is able to make different performances based on the same score."

Ansel Adams and his Love for Water

Personally I’ve never really been much of a fan of photography exhibitions, especially those focusing on landscapes – quite ironic, since I usually take pictures of landscapes – but the National Ma…

nigelip.com

 

[hope]

Yes, I remember you did this before. The first one is the hardest one for me to understand. Is it a nervous laugh?

Exactly! don't I like that succinct explanation.

 

[Agonum]

Megaloblatta longipennis

 

[Agonum]

Vulpes lagopus (arctic fox/Polarfuchs/fjällräv)

 

[Agonum]

Ovibos moschatus (muskox/Moschusochse/Овцебык (Ovtsebyk)/myskoxe)

 

[zinniabooklover]

Shetland ponies

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

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[zinniabooklover]

 

[Agonum]

Canis lupus lupus (wolf/Wolf/волкот/varg)

 

[zinniabooklover]

Orcas in the waters around Shetland, Scotland

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

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[Agonum]

Yes. All of the photos in that little batch are by him.

Wow, I really love that one with the tree reflecting in the water.

 

[zinniabooklover]

A red-necked phalarope: between 70% and 90% of the UK breeding population is found in Shetland.

This photo shows the full breeding plumage.

 

[zinniabooklover]

Wow, I really love that one with the tree reflecting in the water.

I was trying to find out where that one was taken but didn't get very far. I might have another go. It is beautiful, isn't it? So atmospheric.

 

[hope]

They roll around in the snow too, I didn't realize they did that)))))

 

[zinniabooklover]

The Aurora Borealis seen from Shetland where the Northern Lights are known locally as Mirrie Dancers

 

[zinniabooklover]

Puffin photo taken at Sumburgh Head, Shetland

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

[zinniabooklover]

Fulmar in flight, Unst, Shetland

 

[zinniabooklover]

Hermaness, Unst, Shetland