A daguerreotype camera is taken along on an expedition led by John Fremont to chart the Western territories. Fremont is inexperienced with the process and obtains poor results. Ansel Adams's ...

Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness ... In the 20s and into the 30s, I would carry a 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 glass plate camera -- that was a little heavy. And I had a 4 x 5 camera ...

In Ansel Adams’ Zone System, you would expose to maintain shadow detail, then develop to place highlights in the zones of your choosing. With a digital camera, you expose to obtain details in the ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...