Michael Freeman's Photo School Fundamentals by Freeman Michael;

Author:Freeman, Michael;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Beyond shapes, lines, and framing, composition is also about how you capture color and texture.

A photograph is your interpretation of an event or scene; it’s your expression of a story. Consequently, the basis of a good photograph is its composition, or how you—the photographer—bring together everything that you are trying to say and relate it effectively as a whole. If a photograph is a narrative, then it relies on a strong composition to be conveyed.

Just like photography itself, composition is the synthesis of the technical and the creative. It’s where geometry and artistry collide head on and in the resulting explosion they make something gorgeous. If you haven’t studied math since high school and the idea of geometry strikes fear to your core, don’t worry. When you look at it in the context of taking a photograph and can see how it helps to elevate your images from something ordinary to something special, it’s not nearly that daunting.

This section on composition has been designed as a progression. It builds on theories, skills, and techniques as you go along, and gives you the opportunity to put them into practice, too. Of course, if you just wanted to check on a theory, there’s nothing to stop you from doing that. All the same, the idea is to have you taking better-composed, beautiful photographs by the end of the section.

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