Thanks to all that voted for me in the David Hockney challenge. Congrats to all the participated in the challenge.
For this challenge, Ansel Adams (http://www.anseladams.com/). I have always admired his photography and those that do landscape photography.
This may not be the most difficult challenge for the taker, but I'm sure I will be pressed to come up with the five finalists.
~challenge starts Monday :28 November and ends on 4th of December
~I'll pick my final 5 and voting will start on the 6th
~all 365ers can vote for their favourite
~please tag your photo artist_adams
@dejongdd@emeraldboots I have seen no other challenges that have specified a time frame, If you have one from the last year, it may be used. If it won is another challenge, please don't use it.
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I think this is the hardest challenge yet personally. His contrast was absolute perfection. Perfect detail in the blacks and the whites. Whites were white, not grey, blacks were black but you could still see detail. And he did it all in film, so he had no digital manipulation to help out. I think its going to be tough to get that kind of raw, pure perfection with digital but I'm so excited about this challenge. He's my favorite photographic artist ever. I once saw a gallery of his in the Houston art museum and his portraits blew me away. I can't wait, excellent choice.
@amyhughes He had no digital manipulation, but did plenty in the darkroom. I think he would have loved photoshop.
I will enter as he is my favourite photographer. But I am fairly embarrassed to.
Great choice. Ansel could have been my choice once. Instead I chose his artistical counterpart Casper David Friedrich a few month ago. Last week I challenge myself with this result:
Now this is an artist I think I could do!! I always thought it had to be taken specifically for the challenge. I have a few that I could tweak for the challenge....but I won't, I'll go and find something new with him in mind :)
I just posted what is probably an overabundance of entries for the challenge. OMG this one was WAY harder than I thought it would be. Getting the skies right meant overdarkening the landscape, and getting the landscape right meant washing out the clouds. I think @webfoot and his shots are really hitting the mark though - I'd love to hear a little more about your postprocessing. :)
Well here you go. I just posted this one today. I took this shot on the 20th of November in Joshua Tree National Park. It was really overcast that day, so I'm not really satisfied with the sky as it's pretty monotone, but this is what I did to this shot.
RAW file dropped into Elements9
I bumped the Clarity to 100%
Upped the vibrance.
Then I opened the file.
All the adjustments I now do are intended to get a lot of clean contrast in the image.
Adjusted the color by bumping the Hue a little to the green. I guess this would be like adding a filter, which is what Adams would have done on the camera. I bumped up the saturation of the colors and dropped the lightness.
Then I converted it to B&W - There's a variety of options in Elements which will give different shades of gray. Usually, I'll choose Infrared or Vivid Landscapes as they tend to give the best results. I used Vivid Landscapes with this one.
Next came lighting adjustments. I lightened the shadows slightly to bring out some definition and darkened the highlights for the same reason. I played around with the Midtone Contrast until I got the contrast on the rocks that I really liked.
Then I lowered the Lightness slightly and bumped up the Contrast.
After clicking OK. I bumped up the Contrast some more to really accentuate the juniper berries on the trees in front of the rocks.
Most of it is playing around with the different lighting elements, but don't be afraid to mess with the midtone contrast. That's what really brought about the contrast on the rocks. I think this one might be even more dramatic had not the clouds been so monotone. Puffy white clouds against a dark sky adds to the B&W in my opinion.
@webfoot Wow Paul - thanks ever so for posting all that! That is some great info and it will be very helpful! You know, before this challenge, I would have said that I didn't really care two bits about Ansel Adams. I know, I know, blasphemy, but I'm just not really into landscape photography and such. I was always all, how hard can it be to go out and shoot a mountain on black and white film? I am having a good laugh at my ignorance now. :)
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I will enter as he is my favourite photographer. But I am fairly embarrassed to.
He's my favorite photographer as well. Amazing what he could accomplish for landscapes with B&W.
Well here you go. I just posted this one today. I took this shot on the 20th of November in Joshua Tree National Park. It was really overcast that day, so I'm not really satisfied with the sky as it's pretty monotone, but this is what I did to this shot.
RAW file dropped into Elements9
I bumped the Clarity to 100%
Upped the vibrance.
Then I opened the file.
All the adjustments I now do are intended to get a lot of clean contrast in the image.
Adjusted the color by bumping the Hue a little to the green. I guess this would be like adding a filter, which is what Adams would have done on the camera. I bumped up the saturation of the colors and dropped the lightness.
Then I converted it to B&W - There's a variety of options in Elements which will give different shades of gray. Usually, I'll choose Infrared or Vivid Landscapes as they tend to give the best results. I used Vivid Landscapes with this one.
Next came lighting adjustments. I lightened the shadows slightly to bring out some definition and darkened the highlights for the same reason. I played around with the Midtone Contrast until I got the contrast on the rocks that I really liked.
Then I lowered the Lightness slightly and bumped up the Contrast.
After clicking OK. I bumped up the Contrast some more to really accentuate the juniper berries on the trees in front of the rocks.
Most of it is playing around with the different lighting elements, but don't be afraid to mess with the midtone contrast. That's what really brought about the contrast on the rocks. I think this one might be even more dramatic had not the clouds been so monotone. Puffy white clouds against a dark sky adds to the B&W in my opinion.
Here's the color version unaltered.
It's sometimes very tough to shoot a mountain in color.
and another one from March: