Landscape - Ansel Adams research

Ansel Adams is an American Landscape photographer born in 1902 in San Francisco. He was a fan of nature, as he lived near the Yosemite National Park and was inspired by it. Many of his Landscapes were taken there.
He was a very technical photographer, as he used the zoning system and pre visualisation.
The zoning system is a system that Ansel Adams formulated that helped to calculate the correct camera settings for optimal exposure.
He also pre-visualised his images, meaning he pictured how he wanted them to be, so that he could select his camera settings and composition based upon that.
With Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston, Adams formed the Group F/64, which consisted of seven San Francisco based photographers. They all shared photo characteristics of carefully framed photographs and sharp focus. Here are some examples of Ansel's work.

This image was taken at Yosemite national Park in San Fran Cisco. This work is very typical for Adams, as it uses a Landscape orientation and captures a very wide angle. This image incorporates the golden triangle composition rule, as it features a prominent foreground, mid ground and background. This was likely achieved on purpose through the use of Pre visualisation, which is something Ansel Adams pioneered. This image also has a very wide depth of field, as only the background is slightly out focus and the rest of the image is sharply in focus. It was therefore shot using a high F stop value such as F22, which he likely chose carefully using the Zoning system for calculating camera settings that he pioneered.

I do not know for sure where this image was taken, though it was likely taken in Yosemite national park, as large amount of Ansel Adams' work was taken there. This image features several formal elements. Firstly, this image has a very wide tonal range; there are some very light tones displayed on the grass and on parts of the road, as well as some very dark tones shown on the stone structure and on the hills in the background. It also makes use of leading lines, which take the form of the path, which leads you the stone structure featured in the background of the image. Like most of Adams' work, the image was taken using landscape orientation and captures a very wide angle shot.                              

This is an image that is very different in some ways to the other two. It has much less to see in it; it is simply the horizon taken from a moody, flooded field.