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Born in 1981, Cora has been photographing since 2002. Her craft is unique in that she almost always has the finished, edited image in her mind when she releases the shutter. She opts to shoot infrequently but with great intention and purpose. Cora's visual language is clean and quiet. She likes light, bright images featuring harmonious, subtle, and desaturated colors, and she is a borderline perfectionist when it comes to designing her images. Her award-winning photography has been exhibited in international competitions.
Cora's diverse photographic interests include portrait, beauty, fashion, nude, erotic, and floral photography. Top quality color management is a part of her daily craft, which she produces consistently for initial exposures, fine-art prints, and everything in between.
Professionally trained in the cultural sciences, she works as a freelance graphic designer and photo editor for exacting photography publications. Together with Georg, she also works as a writer for magazine and book publishers and develops concepts for educational materials about photography. Her contract work ranges from stylish arrangement and ideal lighting for product photography to portraits and aesthetic nude and erotic images. She directs the contract photography curriculum for the artist's workshop at Artepictura. Additional information can be found at artepictura-atelier.de.
Born in 1969, Georg has been photographing since 1984. His style is characterized by approaching his subjects closely, playing with sharpness and blur, and designing loudly and colorfully with off-kilter perspectives. His attention to detail is common across his interests in portrait, lifestyle, erotic, nude, travel, and detail photography. He sees subjects in everyday scenes that others tend to miss and he excels at capturing these details with a spontaneous and instinctive shooting style, though he prefers to thoroughly prepare portrait shoots conceptually.
His contract work as a photographer centers on lifestyle images, everyday scenes, and employee and company profiles. For the past five years, he and Cora have written for photography textbooks and magazines. Georg studied economics and social education, and as a management consultant he pairs his photographic expertise with extensive experience in project management and sales to help corporate clients with their visual representation and professional image design needs.
Georg has devised and independently built three structured courses of study for photography, including the photography department at the college in Rhein-Main, the photography school at the university in Lueneburg, and Artepictura Academy (artepictura-akademie.de). He is currently earning a teaching degree in Media Management in Wiesbaden.
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- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Rocky Nook (September 3, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1937538214
- ISBN-13: 978-1937538217
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Free Download Learning to Photograph - Volume 2: Visual Concepts and Composition
Books on photographic composition usually give exactly the same advice so it's probably not necessary to read more than one or two. After that, most photographers would be better off spending their time analyzing images, both their own and those of others, to see how those images were composed, advice to which the Baneks subscribe.
It's been a long time since I read a basic composition book, although I have looked at several that are aimed at specific genres, like landscape or wildlife. I thought it was time to consider one of these more general books. After all, technology has come a long way in the last few years, and it might have had an impact on composition. Learning to Photograph Volume 2 is one of the newest composition books on the market. As with most composition books, the authors advise the reader that there are no rules for composition, and then proceed to give principles which look remarkably like rules. The authors advise against being bound by these principles but I suspect that the beginners at whom this book is aimed would be better served by keeping these principles in mind in their early efforts, as long as they recognize that they will have to choose between sometimes competing principles. The principles covered are comprehensive and are those with which older hands will be familiar, like positioning the camera, less is more and the rule of thirds. Many of these are not intuitive, so the tyro would do well to study them carefully so that they stay in mind. The authors' written explanations are clear and interesting, although lacking in much of a sense of humor. Each point is profusely illustrated with photographs.
The beginner should be warned that many of the illustrations are "edgy" even if appropriate.
Right up front I want to say this is the best photography book I have seen for actually helping you to understand how to take a good picture! Thoroughly recommended.
I'm a keen photographer and although I have created images I'm very pleased with, I often find the image doesn't come out the way I had hoped despite having many photography books and having done courses. These all tend to have a focus on the technical side of photography but lack assistance on the creative side. The best help I have had in the past has been criticism and advice from a professional photographer. This book is even better! There is so much helpful information that is backed up by well explained theory about what different effects have to people's perception of an image, and how doing different things will change the effect of the image. The book encourages you to embrace and develop your own personal style by telling you if you do this you will have a calming image, but change it in this way for a dynamic image. It encourages you to see more and think more when you compose your pictures whilst provide a much greater understanding as to how to get the shot you want, and why a shot may not have worked as you hoped.
This book doesn't give you a list of `rules' for designing images, but provides you with a wealth of explanation on how people perceive images, how different design elements come together to make a successful image, and different techniques and tips for how to utilise these different elements effectively for yourself. The book is very easy to read, but also packed full of interesting material and excellent advice.