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 enlarge | Author: David Präkel
Publisher: AVA Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 36058
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 244
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 2940373043
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.11
EAN: 9782940373048
ASIN: 2940373043
Publication Date: October 11, 2006
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 Explained a Complex Subject Well July 25, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am an experienced amatuer photographer who has done work for school classes and I've also been offered jobs by the local newspaper. [...]
This book is awesome. At least enough for me to write a review. I bought this book after reading a review of it in Advanced Photoshop magazine, and it was definitely worth it. It is smaller than I thought in cover size and font size, around the size of a national geographic magazine, and much thicker.
It covers all the details of composition from the basic everyone knows (but only very little about) like the "rule of thirds," and goes on to formal elements of point, line, shape, form, texture, pattern, tone, and color. It discussing organizing space through balance and different aspects of its appearance, and even explains more complex concepts such as "negative space." It goes into how each rule can be applied to real-world jobs and setups such as journalism, documentary, portraiture or advertising. Finally it sets you in the right direction for developing your own "look" for photography so that you don't have to rely on mimicing others.
Bottom line: The book is almost like a mini-course in compositional photography, and covers the conceptual and technical aspects of all, with plenty of examples from a wide variety of photographers, as well as famous photography quotes. The way this book is organized it reads like an interesting textbook and is immediately applicable to experienced photographers and newbies alike.
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