Photographic Composition
eBook - ePub

Photographic Composition

Principles of Image Design

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Photographic Composition

Principles of Image Design

About this book

Photographic Composition offers 250 beautiful black-and-white photographs to illustrate key concepts that will greatly improve your photographic eye and your ability to compose an ideal image.

All fine artists share a common goal: to combine individual elements into a convincing, cohesive whole that tells a story or expresses an intention. Photography is especially suited to this pursuit because the photographer can create multiple, distinct images of a single subject using a variety of design techniques. The display on a digital camera instantly shows the arrangement of elements in an image, allowing the photographer to make changes and refine their creation as they work. Albrecht Rissler believes that a firm understanding of image design is as important as having an observant eye or having the technical knowledge to operate a camera. Photographic Composition presents the most important concepts of image design and offers 250 beautiful photographs to illustrate these concepts. By applying these concepts to your own work, you will greatly improve your photographic eye and your ability to compose an ideal image. This book's impressive images are in black-and-white, intentionally removing the distraction of color and making it easy to focus on compositional elements and form. With this book, photographers as well as all visual artists will learn how to infuse their own images with excitement, develop and hone their visual language, and express their personal artistic aesthetic. Topics include:

  • The effect of various aspect ratios
  • Perspective and composition
  • Form and contrast
  • Proportion and harmony
  • Symmetry and asymmetry
  • Brightness and darkness
  • Structures and textures
  • The "perfect moment"

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Information

Publisher
Rocky Nook
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781937538569
eBook ISBN
9781492016373
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Photography

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Why Compose?
  5. The Image Area
  6. Diagonals
  7. Perspectives
  8. Lattices
  9. Cropping
  10. Contrast
  11. Light and Shadow
  12. Sharpness and Blur
  13. Texture
  14. The Right Moment
  15. Thanks
  16. The Author
  17. Copyright Page