Ansel Adams what style of photography did he use, equipment used, special techniques ?
Ansel Adams was an early proponent of “Straight Photography” as championed by Paul Strand. This meant that instead of soft focus or hand treatments, the photographs were clear, sharply focused, and an attempt to show what the artist saw at the actual scene. To do this, Adams used the typical photographic equipment of his day: view cameras with large-format negatives at 4×5 inches, 5×7 inches, 8×10 inches or even 11×14 images. Even though photographic equipment evolved to be smaller, lighter and easier to use with the 35mm cameras beginning in the late 1930s, Adams stayed mostly with large-format view cameras throughout his life. One reason for this is that with view cameras, the relationship between the plane of the lens and the plane of the film can be adjusted, giving the photographer some control over near- and far-ground focus. Also, composition is somewhat easier since the ground glass is large. And of course one huge advantage of the larger formats is super detail with very littl
