http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gift

Either he’s shooting at a really high f-stop or his schlong is actually the size of a giant sequoia.

Impressive

Adams literally founded Group f/64!

Adam’s was known for his super deep depth of field. So yeah, it would have been stopped way down and been a fairly wide angle lens, though probably not more than 40mm equivalent.

Also these were at least 4x5 inch negatives up to 8x10 negatives a lot of the time.

Cool. He’s a legendary photographer. I ran the numbers in this online tool and it checks out.

A 40mm medium format equivalent lens at f/64 will render everything from 0.37m onwards in focus. So if his ding dong was at 0.4m from the camera, it would be about 20-25cm in length, 9-10inches.

So it turns out he was using a high f-stop and has a cannon as epic as his landscapes.

A few discrepancies:
Yes i know he used large format but do you know how difficult it is to set one up for a dick pic.
The numbers are all over the place but it mostly lines up.

In college I set up a 5x4 view camera that my grandfather had been given in the 50s.

It included a custom lens plate that the original owner had built. Stopped way down, I was able to take a low perspective shot of a field with some propane trucks in the distance, and the grass blades in the foreground were in focus, along with the tanks that were sort of the subject, 3-400 yards away.

The one thing I regret about the shot was that there was no sky, just blue (which means white/gray in b/w). Ansel was definitely an inspiration for that shot. In hindsight, I could have laid on my back just in front of the camera and still reached the shutter.

Ansel Adams was famously a member of group f/64 - named because they preferred to use as high an aperture as possible. It adds up.

That said, such tiny apertures typically need long exposures so he must've been able to keep it up while staying perfectly still