Freeman Wilford Patterson CM ONB (born September 25, 1937) is a Canadian nature photographer and writer. [1] He lives at Shamper's Bluff, New Brunswick. [2] Patterson has authored several books on photographic techniques and theory, as well as on his nature photography.
Patterson was born at Long Reach, New Brunswick. [1] He earned a B.A. from Acadia University and was granted a fellowship to study at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. While in New York, he studied photography and design. After completing three years there, he taught for three more years in Edmonton before finally deciding to pursue photography full-time. [3]
Together with photographer and friend Colla Swart, he has hosted photographic workshops in Kamieskroon, Northern Cape, South Africa.
He lives at Shamper's Bluff, New Brunswick. [2]
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 favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
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