08-25-2017, 12:22 PM
Total crud, and interpretation to fit a blogger's theory.
All it says is, at best, that CB had an intuitive view of what he liked compositionally, and managed to shoot many of his images that way, at least the one that were published. CB was an accomplished painter besides being a famous photographer, so composition certainly would be part of his baggage.
When I see those lines and photographs, I personally think that many of these images actually do not fit those lines, although compositionally they work.
As to Ansel Adams: he invented the Zone System well before he became famous, and well before he wrote about it. It is a way to get the best out of negatives and prints, and it was he technique he invented and use exactly for that reason.
Kind regards, Wim
All it says is, at best, that CB had an intuitive view of what he liked compositionally, and managed to shoot many of his images that way, at least the one that were published. CB was an accomplished painter besides being a famous photographer, so composition certainly would be part of his baggage.
When I see those lines and photographs, I personally think that many of these images actually do not fit those lines, although compositionally they work.
As to Ansel Adams: he invented the Zone System well before he became famous, and well before he wrote about it. It is a way to get the best out of negatives and prints, and it was he technique he invented and use exactly for that reason.
Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....