Ansel Adams is an American photographer and environmentalist from California. He went to school at home when he was in Elementary School and was taught by his parents for part of his childhood. Ansel Adams first camera was called a Kodak Brownie Box Camera. These were a lot different then the cameras we have today. Most people today use there phones to take pictures. They are a lot smaller than this camera.
Ansel Adams began to take photographs by using his camera as a diary. He took it with him on trips to the National Parks and used it to remeber the things he saw there. Watch the Video Below about Ansel Adams by clicking on "ANSEL ADAMS"
Ansel Adams were famous because they didn't just show what he saw. He started to applying different filters or photographic tools to change his photos. Now we see the picture that he saw in his mind instead of just what he saw with his mind. Click on the word "PHOTOGRAPHS" to see what Ansel Adams saw in his mind.
The first photograph that Ansel Adams made where he captured the picture he saw in his mind is called, "Moon and Half Dome". He changes this photograph by applying different filters. (A glass that goes over the lens of a camera to make a change to the photo.) Click on the words "MOON AND HALF MOON" below to compare the photo that shows what his eye saw (yellow filter) and the photo that shows what his mind saw (red filter). Then slide the arrow at the bottom of the pictures to go from photograph to the other.
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