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Author: Richard D. Zakia
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"Those of you who follow this blog know that Dr. Richard Zakia, former RIT professor, is one of my all time favorite photo gurus. We send each other pictures. We talk about looking into pictures - and not just looking at them. Big difference.. Dr. Richard Zakia, a.k.a. Dick, is the co-author, along with David Page, of Photographic Composition: A Visual Guide. These two dudes are also two of my favorite people."---Rick Sammon's blog
"Covers all the tips needed to help photographers construct their own unique, outstanding images and is an outstanding 'must' for any collection."--CA Bookwatch
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- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (September 10, 2012)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B009C6173W
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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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