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The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos |  | Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1245
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 9.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0240809343
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780240809342
ASIN: 0240809343
Publication Date: June 6, 2007
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Product Description
Design is the single most important factor in creating a successful photograph. The ability to see the potential for a strong picture and then organize the graphic elements into an effective, compelling composition has always been one of the key skills in making photographs.
Digital photography has brought a new, exciting aspect to design - first because the instant feedback from a digital camera allows immediate appraisal and improvement; and second because image-editing tools make it possible to alter and enhance the design after the shutter has been pressed. This has had a profound effect on the way digital photographers take pictures.
The Photographer's Eye shows how anyone can develop the ability to see and shoot great digital photographs. The book explores all the traditional approaches to composition and design, but crucially, it also addresses the new digital technique of shooting in the knowledge that a picture will later be edited, manipulated, or montaged to result in a final image that may be very different from the one seen in the viewfinder.
Features
*Covers both traditional in-camera composition and the new opportunities for picture-making made possible by digital imaging editing
*Shows how to explore situations and locations in order to find the best possible photographic possibilities
*Uses clear examples from real photographic assignments, with schematic illustrations of how and why the pictures work
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great book, poor Kindle quality on iPad June 26, 2010
Fairy Godmother (PA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anyone who's into photography knows how important it is to be able to see a good quality of the image that is being discussed. The Kindle edition of this book robbed me from that particular side of the learning process: most of the pictures are such poor quality, I have hard time making sence of them.
Someone might tell me, "That's what samples are for". Yes, I did get the sample first but thought, "Well, it's a sample; the real thing will have proper picture quality". Wrong!
Great disappointment, Kindle team.
 Best book on photo composition, PERIOD June 20, 2010
Joseph A. Nowak (Northern California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been a professional photographer for 40 years and even though I graduated from photography school and still have my books, I have purchased literally hundreds of books on photography since 1970... yet I have NEVER seen a book on artistic composition that even pretends to approach this fine book! Okay, you already know about the Rule of Thirds, using leading lines, using color, framing, etc. to draw attention to your subject. This book goes far FAR beyond the aforementioned basic "laws" of art and photography!! This book EXPANDS on them!... like the Big Bang Theory of Photography. What truly amazes me is that the photographs extend the text in the book a hundred times! Do you want to truly get into the mind of an absolute Master of Photography? Want to know the thought processes he goes through before clicking the shutter? My only complaint is that the book isn't ten times as big! That doesn't mean his coverage is inadequate... far from it!
In case you are relatively new to photography, please don't interpret the above to mean that this book is only for extremely advanced amateurs or top notch professionals, you are WRONG. What separates this book from the "chaff" is that he DOES explain why he does what he does! :) Photographers at every level of photography will find this book hard to put down! I DO recommend though that you become intimately familiar with operating your camera first!... and that you understand the very basic concepts of photography. Someone who just picked up a camera today for the first time will learn something, but might be frustrated in understanding some of the concepts brought up in this book.
You will look at the images in this book first! No doubt about it! You will say to yourself, "I wish I could take photographs like these". Read the book word for word and learn!
My highest rating, 10 stars!
Beyond Visual Recording June 8, 2010
Richard Berns (Chicago, Illinois United States)
I have no background in the field of Art, but I want to advance myself in the art of photography. I'm a developing photographer with a past life as an electrical engineer, and I'm striving to get beyond just the technical aspect of making quality visual recordings of the world around me.
This book was a real eye opener for me. The author offers his experience in photography along with an unusual mix of rigorous theory. He helped me realize how the human minds sees, not just how the camera and lens can capture a clear image of objects. The book deals with the psychology of the human mind as it relates to visual impact and how to get beyond producing mundane images.
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