"Cameras don't take photos, people do" is the premise for this handy guide to digital photography. It sets out to be a practical guide that shows that you don't need expensive photographic equipment to take good photographs.
Various aspects of the camera and photography, both practical and creative, are explained briefly and concisely without getting technical. Lenses and Focal lengths; Using a Fisheye Lens; Working with Macro Lenses; Understanding Exposure; ISO and Noise; Mulit-Raw Processing Beyond Landscapes; Shutter Speed and Motion; Exposing for the Earth and the Sky at Night; Seeing the unexpected; Photography That Tells a Story; Abstraction; Combining Images; Surrealism; Patterns; Framing; Black and White; Perspective, are just a few around 75 different topics covered.
Each topic opens with a brief introduction followed by examples. It is illustrated throughout with the authors own colour photographs on virtually everyone of its 240 pages, and each photograph is accompanied by a brief explanation of what the photographer set out to do and how he achieved it, including the equipment and settings used, all this information is extremely useful. Sometimes comparative examples or steps are illustrated. The scope of the guide is vast, as is the variety of the pictures, so most should find something that appeals here.
The presentation is good, although I would have favoured a serif typeface for the text rather than the sans face chosen here, it does not make for ease of reading. Included is a Further Reading list, Glossary and Index.
Creative Composition is a useful book; but it is perhaps best taken in small doses, the danger, with with so much information covered in very short sections, one is tempted to cover too much in one go. What it does not do is discuss to any extent the use of photo-editing software, reference is made to Adobe Photoshop (it does not mention other software such as Corel Photo-Paint), but there is little here that explains how to use the software, nor does it explore many of the the creative possibilities of such software.
Author(s): Harold Davis
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 242
Tags: Библиотека;Досуг;Фотография;Фотокомпозиция;
Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 9
Cameras don’t take photos, people do......Page 12
Technique and Composition......Page 13
Working with Your Camera......Page 15
Lenses and Focal Lengths......Page 17
Sensor Size and Focal Length......Page 19
Using a Fisheye Lens......Page 25
Working with Macro Lenses......Page 27
Choosing the Right Focal Length......Page 31
Understanding Exposure......Page 35
Using Exposure Histograms......Page 39
Creative Exposures......Page 41
ISO and Noise......Page 43
Shutter Speed and Motion......Page 45
Aperture, Focus and Depth-of-Field......Page 51
Focusing and the Hyperfocal Distance......Page 55
Working with a Lensbaby......Page 61
Blur and Bokeh......Page 63
Understanding Dynamic Range......Page 67
Extending Dynamic Range......Page 69
Exposing for the Earth and Sky at Night......Page 71
Multi-RAW Processing Beyond Landscapes......Page 73
Bracketing Landscape Exposures......Page 75
Combining Flower Captures......Page 77
Extending Focal Range......Page 79
Workflow and Digital Asset Management......Page 81
Unleash your imagination......Page 84
Using Visual Ambiguity......Page 85
Seeing the Unexpected......Page 87
The Power of Vision......Page 91
Photography is Magic......Page 95
A World of Mystery......Page 99
Double Takes......Page 101
Photography and Narration......Page 105
Photography Is Poetry......Page 109
Photography That Tells a Story......Page 113
Researching Your Subject......Page 119
Be Specific......Page 121
Abstraction......Page 123
Plausible Abstraction......Page 129
Photography and paradox......Page 132
Combining Images......Page 133
Photography Is Deception......Page 135
Playing with Scale......Page 137
What Is Reality?......Page 139
The Mystical Landscape......Page 141
The Nature of Paradox......Page 145
Surrealism......Page 151
Photography is design......Page 158
Lines......Page 159
Shapes......Page 161
Photography and Zen......Page 165
Patterns......Page 167
Iteration......Page 173
Rhythm......Page 177
Translating a 360º World......Page 179
Seeing the Frame......Page 181
Framing......Page 183
Dividing the Frame......Page 189
The Golden Ratio......Page 193
Frames within Frames......Page 195
Color......Page 199
Light......Page 201
Working with Tones......Page 203
Seeing the Composition......Page 205
Black and White......Page 207
Contrasting Color with Black and White......Page 213
Spirals......Page 217
Perspective......Page 223
Order and Disorder......Page 225
Emphasizing What Matters......Page 229
Further Reading......Page 235
Glossary......Page 237
Index......Page 239
