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Author: Richard D. Zakia
ISBN : 0240815076
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A note from the author, Richard Zakia:
P. H. Emerson reminds us that Every artist is at first an amateur. One of the great American photographers of the 20th Century, Edward Weston, as a young photographer, only got honorable mention in a photographic contest sponsored by an amateur camera magazine. Ansel Adams, Paul Strand and others also began as amateurs. Wynn Bullock began his outstanding photographic career later in life when he was in his 40s
Today, in our digital age, everyone is a photographer. Recognizing this and the fact that there are some basic proven guidelines for creating winning photographs, we put together this highly visual book especially for beginning photographers who want to improve their photography. In doing so we discovered that some professional photographers also found it helpful. One can think of our book as a visual grammar that will help you better compose what you desire to express and to do so with clarity.
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However amazing the subject or technically excellent the photography, the single biggest factor in deciding whether a photograph is good or bad is how well it is composed.
Photographic Composition Visualized offers a unique take on this fundamental issue by offering instruction in a visual format - the book is laid out in a unique spread format of a beautiful image on one page, with an in-depth break down of why the rule of composition works in the image, but also how a photographer can apply it to their own photography.
Inspirational, instructive, and, most importantly, visually stunning and beautiful, photography master Richard Zakia teaches the lessons he has learned from over 40 years as a photographer. This is the book every photographer needs to own in order to create the outstanding images they always wanted to - but didn't know how.
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- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (October 11, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240815076
- ISBN-13: 978-0240815077
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.8 x 8.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Finally, one of our top photography teachers, retired from one of the top university photography programs in this country, and a former student collaborator have written a really good, visually very appealing, reasonably comprehensive book on photographic composition. This is nearly 300 pages on composing, not a twenty or thirty page chapter.
Any introductory photography program or class now has available an excellent introduction to composing to compliment one of the books on digital camera handling. Any photographer would do well to own this book. The Freeman, Mante, and Hoffmann books comprise my recommendations for excellent writing at the intermediate level, and Freeman's most recent "The Photographer's Mind" is the sole representative at the advanced topics level.
The numerous chapters in the main section, "Capture," cover a fairly conventional breakdown of the components and techniques in obtaining a well constructed image. Topics include "Geometrics," figure-ground, depth, framing, clarity, movement, camera angle, elements of Gestalt composition theory, and other topics. Each page has a photograph and a discussion underneath illustrating the immediate topic. Each chapter ends with a nicely conceived set of visual or photographic problems or exercises that relate well to the chapter. This is a very nice text.
For years, Zakia's books on "Perception and Imaging" and, my favorite because of its shortness, "Perception and Photography," have been classics.
I hope that Zakia or Zakia and Page will not wait to write other volumes at the intermediate and advanced levels. Zakia is one of the few American photographer/writer/teachers with a mind analytical enough to say a great deal about an image's structure and why it works or doesn't.
Not just a collection of interesting and often beautiful photographs, Photographic Composition, A Visual Guide by Zakia and Page is a masterful teaching tool that relies heavily on the photographic media it is showing how to make more interesting and stunning.
The book is composed in three sections: Before Capture, Capture, and After Capture. The second section makes up the bulk of the book as it should since this is where composition takes place. But without the physical and mental preparation before capture and the treatment of the images after capture, the ability to make and present our work is tantamount to putting all our pictures in a shoebox.
In the capture section, we are reintroduced to Geometrics that in many photo workshops usually go no further than the idea of the "Rule of Thirds" which many new digital cameras have built-in grids for guidance. However, Zakia and Page go way beyond the usual and present thirteen additional geometrics, many of which break the rule of thirds to produce extraordinary images.
Building on the geometrics, the book explores Figure Ground, Depth, Framing, Clarity, Movement, Angle, Gestalt Composition, Portraiture, Light and Shadows, and Color.
The beauty of the exposition of all these capture essentials is the copious illustrations of the ideas using classic and contemporary images. The reader gets to see, for example, how to separate a figure from the ground; frame a scene; show movement; or use color effectively.
The last section on After Capture show us how to think about our presentation of the images we capture in terms of titling our images and some ideas on what can be done to enhance the image in photo-processing software.
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