Ansel Adams' Zone System: Joshua Tree

An image from FIAT LUX, Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall's 1967 book for the Centennial of the University of California, is used to illustrate Adams' renown Zone System of analyzing scene luminance for proper exposure in photography. This video is a part of the FIAT LUX REDUX exhibition at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library. Video animation by Kwame Braun, analysis courtesy of Alan Ross.
Similar explorations of some of Adams' images serve as interludes in "Take Five," a program of filmed interviews with University of California faculty, staff, alumni, and students as well as members of the general public created by filmmakers Kwame Braun and Catherine Cole in relation to the Fiat Lux photographic collection by Ansel Adams (onthesamepage.berkeley.edu/fl-.... "Take Five" videos will be released on the web throughout Fall 2012. To get regular updates, follow "On the Same Page" on Twitter or Facebook: onthesamepage.berkeley.edu. "Take Five" videos will also appear as part of the exhibition "Fiat Lux Redux: Ansel Adams and Clark Kerr" at The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley opening on September 27, 2012 and running through February 28, 2013 (bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits....