What a pity everyone looks at Adams' pictures but few read his words. Most of us would profit from emulating his stately, elegant prose style and might learn a thing or two about photography as well.
I quote from his introduction of volume two "The Negative" from his "The New Ansel Adams Photography Series" 1981, wherein he states "I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them."
Proof that Adams would have devoted much time and attention to creating images via digital media. Back when it mattered to me personally, I claimed that when pixel density approached grain density in conventional film the debate would end. In retropspect I was being very pessimistic. With present day edge detection alogrithms in software pixel density need not be anywhere close to grain density to produce equal image quality.
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What a pity everyone looks at Adams' pictures but few read his words. Most of us would profit from emulating his stately, elegant prose style and might learn a thing or two about photography as well. I quote from his introduction of volume two "The Negative" from his "The New Ansel Adams Photography Series" 1981, wherein he states "I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them." Proof that Adams would have devoted much time and attention to creating images via digital media. Back when it mattered to me personally, I claimed that when pixel density approached grain density in conventional film the debate would end. In retropspect I was being very pessimistic. With present day edge detection alogrithms in software pixel density need not be anywhere close to grain density to produce equal image quality.