Last evening I went to the George Eastman House for a lecture given by Willie Osterman who is a Professor at RIT in the Fine Arts Department on the Zone System of Photography. This is a method developed by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in 1941.
Before the lecture I took a real quick tour of the garden, and here’s what I saw.
Huge poppy flowers:
And what’s left after the petals start falling off:
A cool twisted vine:
which was on this:
Blue and Pink Hydrangeas:
I love the symmetry in this photo:
These roses smelled wonderful:
The flowers on this honeysuckle vine smelled sooo good:
And the zone photography system is really cool! If you ever get a chance to learn about it, go for it! It’s one of those things now that I’ve learned something new I realize how very little I know about photography, le sigh. To read about the zone system, or about basic photography, Willie recommended the book “The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography – Book 1 by John Schaefer. There’s also info about it on the web (so I don’t have to figure out how to describe it now)! Here’s one site, and there’s others.
Nature Woman 