In an age over-saturated with photographic imagery, Design Principles for Photography demonstrates how design awareness can add a new level of depth to your images. By adapting and experimenting with the tried and tested techniques used by graphic designers every day, you can add dynamism and impact to your imagery, whatever the style or genre - something that today's editors, curators and publishers are all crying out for.
The second edition includes examples of unsuccessful compositions, annotated images highlighting key techniques and an expanded glossary. There's also a new section on movements in photography and their reflection in composition, including modernism, expressionism, and surrealism and interviews with international practitioners discussing how they've included design principles in their work.
Featured topics: Basic design theory; the use of space; positional decisions; the elements of design; line; shape or form; space; texture; light; colour; pattern; rhythm; contrast; scale and proportion; abstraction; movement and flow; containment; emphasis and emotion; justaposition; incongruity; mood and emotion.
Author(s): Jeremy Webb
Series: Basics Creative Photography
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 226
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
1 Basic design theory
The role of the viewfinder in photography
The use of space
Positional decisions
The rules and when to break them
Exercise 1 – Cropping
Photographic genres – Still life photography
Styles and movements – Pictorialism
Further resources
2 The elements of design
Line
Shape or form
Space
Texture
Light
Colour
Exercise 2 – Design limitations
Photographic genres – Fine art photography
Further resources
3 First design principles
Pattern
Repetition
Interruption
Variety and unity
Rhythm
Contrast
Exercise 3 – Form and structure
Photographic genres – Landscape photography
Styles and movements – Surrealism
Further resources
4 Depth and scale
Overcoming limitations
Actual and illusory depth
Scale and proportion
The absence of scale
Abstraction
Exercise 4 – Abstract images
Photographic genres – Stock photography
Further resources
5 Movement and flow
Directional forces
Containment
Flow direction
Exercise 5 – Observation
Photographic genres – Constructed or staged photography
Photographic genres – Photojournalism and documentary photography
Styles and movements – Modernism
Further resources
6 Emphasis and emotion
Point of interest
Focus areas vs areas of de-focus
Juxtaposition
Incongruity
Mood and emotion
Exercise 6 – Themes
Photographic genres – Editorial photography
Further resources
7 Putting it all together
Expressing views and visions
Symbolism as visual shorthand
Creative strategies
Exercise 7 – Concepts and ideas
Photographic genres – Design and conceptual photography
Styles and movements – Postmodernism: Predominantly 1960s to 1990s
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements and picture credits
