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- Location scouting (recce) for images

Why does a location of a recce? The greater the amount of preparation prior to a shoot, the more efficient you can be on location, the smaller the possibility things can go wrong, and the better the final outcome is likely to be. A recce is one of the most important forms of shoot preparation.

Why Recce the studio space? Visiting your location is essential to help sculpt the shot list , build production designs, prepare the technical crew with kit requirements logistics and most importantly ,the health and safety aspects which will be required for risk assessments.

a scouting photos are a place that you visit often enough take a photo, bring it back home, edit it, decide that you'd prefer a composition slightly to the left, and then go back later to capture it better. Essentially, this level of scouting means that you know the location like back of your hand. who pays the location fees depending on which photography you work with. Some may cover the location fee as part of the session fee, others may require you to pay it yourself.



Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favoured sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.

Ansel Adams use a Polaroid camera, While Ansel Adams is most famously known for his stunning, large-format landscape images, Adams also used the Polaroid SX-70 to create equally stunning (albeit smaller-scale

Greatly influenced by the work of Paul Strand, Adams was one of the founders with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham of the Group f/64. Members of the group tended to use large cameras and small apertures to capture a wider range of different textures.

Ansel Adams manipulated his images extensively through the use of push-and-pull processing when he developed his sheets of film and then extensive dodging and burning when he printed. Today with digital, you can use Photoshop in a similar way.

He also used a Hasselblad with an 80 mm normal lens, and an ultrawide Hasselblad that had a fixed 38 mm lens. Earlier in his career Ansel used 8 x 10 and 5 x 7 view cameras, all of which he fitted with lenses of various focal lengths, ranging from wide angle to normal to telephoto.

The Zone System is a technique that was formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer back in the 1930's https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+Weston+photography+techniques&source=lmns&bih=1013&biw=1040&rlz=1C1C

Artists of The West Coast Photographic Movement embraced and developed Straight photography in the 1930s. In his autobiography, Ansel Adams used the terms straight photography and pure photography.

Photographer Carleton Watkins hauled two tons of equipment into the wilderness. The striated details of a giant sequoia's bark, the unforgettable rock formations, the drama of water cascading over a cliff — these wonders of the Yosemite valley were captured by an ambitious young photographer named Carleton Watkins


Vivian Maier



Vivian Dorothy Maier was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She worked for about 40 years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, while pursuing photography.

As she jumped from new family to new family, her rolls of undeveloped, unprinted work began to collect. In the 1970's Vivian started to shoot more colour street photography, using mostly Kodak Ekta chrome 35mm film. Some of the cameras she used was a Leica IIIc, and various German SLR cameras.

What kind of camera did Vivian Maier use?

Rolle flex camera Vivian Maier's first camera was a modest Kodak Brownie box camera with one shutter speed, no aperture and focus control. In 1952 she purchased her first Rolle flex camera. Over the course of her career she used Rolle flex 3.5T, Rolle flex 3.5F, Rolle flex 2.8C, Rolle flex Automat and others

You can stream it on Amazon. Makes one wonder just how many gifted and creative geniuses like Ms. Maier hone their respective crafts unaware to Interesting and compelling story.

What focal length did Vivian Maier use?

The Rolle flex had just the one, non-interchangeable lens, with a fixed focal length of 80mm (the equivalent of 48mm on a 35mm or full-frame FX digital camera, 32mm on a DX camera).

Maier's self-portrait demonstrates a rejection of gendered expectations and sheds light on the invisibility of the unmarried, childless woman and child care worker. In the early 1940s, women made their mark in the workplace, but it was only “for the duration” of the war

Although there is a difference between street and candid photography, it is usually subtle with most street photography being candid in nature and some candid photography being classifiable as street photography. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment.





Edward Henry Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography.

What camera settings did Edward Weston use? Edward Weston was an American photographer born in 1886, and was regarded as one of the masters of 20th Century photography. He photographed primarily using an 8×10 large format camera, and was known primarily for his black and white “landscape like” still lives.

What techniques did Edward Weston use? For some portraits and nudes he used a Graflex camera, which could be held in his hands and which allowed quick response to a subject in flux, but for most of his work he used an 8 × 10-inch view camera and printed its negatives by contact.

What techniques did Edward Weston use? For some portraits and nudes he used a Graflex camera, which could be held in his hands and which allowed quick response to a subject in flux, but for most of his work he used an 8 × 10-inch view camera and printed its negatives by contact.


The Zone System provides photographers with a scientific method to evaluate the tone range in a composition. It also guides the photographer to adjust the camera's exposure settings to capture an image the way the photographer imagines it. American photographers Ansel Adams and Fred Archer developed the Zone System

How did Edward Weston influence abstract photography?

By creating photographs that transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns, Weston helped bring the medium out of the Victorian age that favoured pictorialism imitations of painting and into the modern era wherein photography became a celebrated medium in its own right

What aperture did Edward Weston use?

a f/240 aperture So, Edward made his own stops for his lens, eventually settling on a f/240 aperture — essentially turning the view camera into a pinhole camera. With such a smaller aperture, exposing Pepper No. 30 adequately with natural light required an ultra-long exposure time of about 4-6 hours.

Andy Warhol


A well-known artist come photographer, Andy Warhol was the leading personality in the visual art movement, known as Pop Art. Friends, boyfriends, business associates, socialites, celebrities, and passers by all captured Warhol's attention. Drawing on a trove of over 3,600 contact sheets featuring 130,000 photographic exposures acquired in 2014 from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the images document Warhol's daily life. While Warhol didn't invent the photographic silkscreen process, he developed his own technique by combining hand-painted backgrounds with photographic silkscreen printed images to create unique works of art. Warhol used the same techniques—silkscreens, reproduced serially, and often painted with bright colours—whether he painted celebrities, everyday objects, or images of suicide, car crashes, and disasters, as in the 1962–63 Death and Disaster series.



ROBERT FRANK




Robert Frank, (born November 9, 1924, Zürich, Switzerland—died September 9, 2019, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada), Swiss American photographer and director who was one of the most influential photographers of the mid-20th century, noted for his ironic renderings of American life

Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, whose visually raw and personally expressive style was pivotal in changing the course of documentary photography, died on Monday in Inverness, Nova Scotia. He was 94.When Frank was a young photographer, he shot mostly with a medium-format square-format Rolleiflex camera. However Alexey Brodovitch, a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor (who Frank looked up to) suggested him to ditch the Rolleiflex for a 35mm Leica. With his Leica, 35 mm black-and-white film, quick reflexes and piercing vision, Frank is perhaps one of the most influential photographers of all time. His most famous work, published in the 1959 book The Americans, continues to serve as a touchstone and template for generations of visual reporters.


At the end of his extensive training, Frank made 40 Photos, 1946, a hand-bound volume of photographs that shows the eclectic influences he had absorbed during his early years, including modernism, reportage, and the Heimat (Homeland) style, celebrating the simplicity of rural Swiss life.

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