Download or read book See It Photographic Composition Using Visual Intensity written by Ellen Anon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good image is more than just acceptable exposure and sharp focus -- two components that photography instruction concentrates on. A fascinating subject doesn't necessarily result in a good image, and likewise, it's possible to create an outstanding image of a mundane subject. So how do you know the difference? Perhaps you've read a lot of material on how to use your camera, how to manage images, and/or how to make adjustments using different software programs. What usually is not covered is what needs to be done beyond obvious exposure, noise, and sharpening issues so that you can intuitively recognize the difference between a good and bad image, and most importantly, why. That's where this book comes in. Rather than wasting time blindly trying one approach or another until something seems right, the quality of your imagery and the speed of your workflow will both vastly improve once you are able to articulate why you prefer one image to another. Expert authors Josh and Ellen Anon have spent years perfecting their visual-intensity based approach to composition, and in this gorgeous, full color guide, they'll share their techniques with you so that your overall photographic experience, both in terms of time investment and quality of output, will become a much more satisfying one.
Download or read book See It Photographic Composition Using Visual Intensity written by Ellen Anon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good image is more than just acceptable exposure and sharp focus -- two components that photography instruction concentrates on. A fascinating subject doesn't necessarily result in a good image, and likewise, it's possible to create an outstanding image of a mundane subject. So how do you know the difference? Perhaps you've read a lot of material on how to use your camera, how to manage images, and/or how to make adjustments using different software programs. What usually is not covered is what needs to be done beyond obvious exposure, noise, and sharpening issues so that you can intuitively recognize the difference between a good and bad image, and most importantly, why. That's where this book comes in. Rather than wasting time blindly trying one approach or another until something seems right, the quality of your imagery and the speed of your workflow will both vastly improve once you are able to articulate why you prefer one image to another. Expert authors Josh and Ellen Anon have spent years perfecting their visual-intensity based approach to composition, and in this gorgeous, full color guide, they'll share their techniques with you so that your overall photographic experience, both in terms of time investment and quality of output, will become a much more satisfying one.
Download or read book Photographic Composition written by Richard D. Zakia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those of you who follow this blog know that Dr. Richard Zakia, former RIT professor, is one of my all time favorite photo gurus. We send each other pictures. We talk about looking into pictures - and not just looking at them. Big difference.. Dr. Richard Zakia, a.k.a. Dick, is the co-author, along with David Page, of Photographic Composition: A Visual Guide. These two dudes are also two of my favorite people."---Rick Sammon's blog "Covers all the tips needed to help photographers construct their own unique, outstanding images and is an outstanding 'must' for any collection."--CA Bookwatch
Download or read book Using LYTRO ILLUM written by Josh Anon and published by Josh Anon. This book was released on 2014-09-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using LYTRO ILLUM provides a comprehensive overview of the Lytro ecosystem. Endorsed by Lytro, Inc., this book covers everything from what the light field is to how to take advantage of the Lytro button while shooting to how to edit your pictures outside of Lytro Desktop. It's the one guide that will take you from novice to living picture expert! The latest edition covers the new Focus Spread feature in Lytro Desktop.
Download or read book Aperture 3 Portable Genius written by Josh Anon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the latest tips, facts, and secrets that help you make the most of Aperture 3 Aperture offers a full range of tools to help serious photographers organize and manipulate images and manage workflow. This little guide is packed with hip tips, secrets, and shortcuts that help you get even more functionality from the software. Find out more than you ever knew about vignetting, RAW fine-tuning, Quick Preview mode, Command Editor, and using the integrated iPhoto Browser. Learn new ways to streamline your workflow, get tips on publishing albums online or as customized photo books, and take advantage of many more Genius techniques. Designed for the Apple enthusiast, this handy, colorful guide is packed with ingenious and innovative tips for getting the most from Aperture 3, and the latest version 3.3 Offers advice on using the new streamlined interface, using advanced RAW image processing, and streamlining workflow with keyboard shortcuts Shows how to maximize the effectiveness of vignetting, using Quick Preview mode and Command Editor, and working with the integrated iPhoto Browser Provides helpful hints on creating web-based albums and print photo books Aperture 3 Portable Genius, 2nd Edition gives you the professional tips and tricks that help you squeeze all the functionality from this cool software.
Download or read book Mastering Photographic Composition Creativity and Personal Style written by Alain Briot and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alain Briot states that, "The personality of the photographer must be present in the image for an artistic photograph to have value." And in this book he sets out to teach the things that are essential in achieving this goal. Following his successful first book, Mastering Landscape Photography, Briot goes beyond the conventional rules of composition and takes on a fresh, new approach to teaching the art of photography. Based upon his personal experiences as an artist, teacher, and photographer, he opens new doors to the reader-doors leading to new ways of seeing and composing images. Briot approaches fine art photography as being a combination of art and technique. In this new book he addresses both of these by presenting artistic and technical information. On the artistic side, Briot introduces artistic concepts that have been rarely, if ever, associated with photography. On the technical side, he presents numerous tools that can help you learn how to create better photographs and provides technical solutions to common photographic problems. The author practices photography as a fine art. What matters most to him is how photography can be used to express feelings and emotions. For Briot, a good photograph must be both artistically inspired and technically excellent. To have just one of these two elements is not enough for a fine art photograph to be successful. Topics include: - How to compose with color, with black and white, and with light - Why you need to consider your audience while composing a photograph - Recreate the emotions you felt when you captured your photographs - How the elements of color-hue, contrast, and saturation-work in your images - How to control the elements that have a visual effect in your photographs - How to draw upon your personal way of seeing and then share your vision - How to diagnose image maladies and apply the proper remedies - How to define a color palette for a specific photograph - How to use compositional elements to develop a personal style Forweword by Tony Sweet
Download or read book Photographic Composition written by Albrecht Rissler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photographic Composition written by Albrecht Rissler and published by Rocky Nook, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All fine artists share a common goal: to combine individual elements into a convincing, cohesive whole that tells a story or expresses an intention. Photography is especially suited to this pursuit because the photographer can create multiple, distinct images of a single subject using a variety of design techniques. The display on a digital camera instantly shows the arrangement of elements in an image, allowing the photographer to make changes and refine their creation as they work. Albrecht Rissler believes that a firm understanding of image design is as important as having an observant eye or having the technical knowledge to operate a camera. Photographic Composition presents the most important concepts of image design and offers 250 beautiful photographs to illustrate these concepts. By applying these concepts to your own work, you will greatly improve your photographic eye and your ability to compose an ideal image. This book's impressive images are in black-and-white, intentionally removing the distraction of color and making it easy to focus on compositional elements and form. With this book, photographers as well as all visual artists will learn how to infuse their own images with excitement, develop and hone their visual language, and express their personal artistic aesthetic. Topics include: The effect of various aspect ratios Perspective and composition Form and contrast Proportion and harmony Symmetry and asymmetry Brightness and darkness Structures and textures The "perfect moment"
Download or read book Composition and Language Photographic written by Ernesto Martinez and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing how to compose in photography is having more than halfway to becoming a good photographer. If you are interested, we are going to recapitulate the basic notions of photographic composition. Mastering composition is just as important as mastering lighting, or the parts and handling of your photographic equipment. It can make the difference between an ordinary photo and a great professional looking photo. In the following pages we will analyze various rules, tricks and tips to take the best photographs in terms of Composition. We will know the laws of perception, who are the Gestalt psychologists and what relationship they have with photography. We will study the law of figure and background, the law of proximity, the law of continuity, the law of closure, the law of similarity and the law of grouping, among others. All of them are rules of perception that help us understand why some photos are better than others and how the visual stimulus that the photographer captures in the image affects the viewer. We will explain in depth the basic laws of photographic composition: the law of the horizon, the law of the gaze and, of course, the famous rule of thirds. Nor will we forget the golden section, the Fibonacci sequence and its relationship with photographic composition. We will continue talking in detail about the elements that make up the design in an image, what they are, and how we can use them in our favor when composing a good photograph. Lines and points, shapes, textures and colors are all concepts that we will get to know in depth in this book and that will serve as a guide when taking out the camera and composing. Finally, we will review the types of framing, explaining what values the different ways of framing add to the image. We will review the photographic angle and the planes of the image and perspective, all of which are aspects to take into account in a good photographic composition. If you want to become a better photographer, get better photos, incredible photos, you don't need to wait for a better team. You can greatly improve your photography, climb a privileged level... by learning the laws and concepts of Composition and visual language . That is why we have created this new Book (ebook) " Photographic Composition and Language" From Good to Extraordinary Photos . It belongs to the Series: " Higher Training in Photography " where we address all matters related to this discipline, necessary for your training as a professional photographer. The series includes the following titles: 1. Black and White Art. 2. Color and Photography. 3. The Exposure . 4. Focus and Sharpness. 5. Photographic. Illumination. 6. Composition and Photographic Language. 7. The Digital Camera. 8. Photographic Lens. 9. Practical guide of Ligthroom. 10. Photoshop for Photographers CONTENTS: Visual Language in Photography. Elements and Basic Tools of Composition The Framing in Photography Location of Objects within the Frame Frame Types Orientation, Proportion and Reframing The Selective Approach Depth of Field. Freeze Motion in your Photography Movement rule. The Path of our Gaze. types of perspective Know how to look graphically The Rule of the Odd Visual Perception Gestalt Perception The Importance of the Optics Used Triangles in Photography: The 7 Types of Plane According to the Scale in Portrait Photography The Visual Weight in Photography Add Visual Weight to an Image How to Express Ourselves with Visual Weight Angle and Frame. Types of Angles Identify the Center of Interest Fill the Frame (Fil the frame) Work Flow and Direction Simplicity Horizon Law Balance and Symmetry The Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. The Rule of Thirds Forms and Figures Texture and Drawing
Download or read book Stronger Photo Composition Four Step System written by Mike James and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a resource of over 100 photography composition tips, this offers a fun and practical system, to intuitively create your next favourite photo.
Download or read book The Visual Story written by Bruce Block and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. You'll learn how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or a composer structures music. Understanding visual structure allows you to communicate moods and emotions, and most importantly, reveals the critical relationship between story structure and visual structure. The concepts in this book will benefit writers, directors, photographers, production designers, art directors, and editors who are always confronted by the same visual problems that have faced every picture maker in the past, present, and future.
Download or read book American Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to See Creatively written by Bryan Peterson and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised volume offers a radical approach to creativity, explaining how this is not the gift possessed by a few, but is a skill that can be learned & applied.
Download or read book Colour Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liverpool and Manchester Photographic Journal written by William Crookes and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Photographic Composition Assistance Through Meaningful Exemplars written by Farshid Farhat and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people are interested in taking good photos and sharing them with others. The size and value of visual content on the web are growing because people share their memories on social media and trade as non-fungible tokens with digital coins. Also, emerging high-tech hardware and software facilitate the ubiquitousness and functionality of digital photography and marketing. These trends lead to many challenging areas in visual content analysis, such as computational image aesthetics, composition-aware image retrieval, and meaningful feedback in photographic systems. Since people like to take better photos of themselves using an app in their handy device, there is a vast market demand for photographic composition assistance to evaluate the essential aspects affecting the beauty of a taken photo and convey meaningful feedback to users. This dissertation investigates new scientific and applied computational photography methods for helping people interested in taking astonishing photos. Because composition matters in photography, researchers have leveraged standard composition techniques, such as the rule of thirds and the perspective-aware methods, in providing photo-taking assistance. To assess the aesthetic quality of photos computationally, researchers also attempted to manipulate the images to improve the aesthetic quality. However, composition techniques developed by professionals are far more diverse than well-documented methods can cover. Also, there is a lack of a holistic framework to capture important aspects of a given scene and help individuals by constructive clues to take a better shot in their adventure. We leverage one of the aspects of image aesthetics in landscape photography which is a linear perspective, i.e., illustrating a 3D depth view as a 2D image. To analyze the linear perspective of a 2D image, we use a contour detector to recognize the vanishing lines, and then we cluster them to find potential vanishing points (VPs) accurately. Then, our proposed strength measure chooses the dominant VP among the potential VPs. We use this approach to provide on-site feedback to users via an image retrieval system based on linear perspective. Also, we leverage the triangle technique widely used in photography. We manage a large portrait dataset for this study and retrieve triangle-shaped human poses from the dataset to help amateur photographers. Finally, we leverage the underexplored photography ideas, which are virtually unlimited, diverse, and correlated. We propose a comprehensive fork-join framework, named CAPTAIN (Composition Assistance for Photo Taking), to guide a photographer with a variety of photography ideas. The framework consists of a few components: integrated object detection, photo genre classification, artistic pose clustering, personalized aesthetics-aware image retrieval, and style set matching. A large managed dataset crawled from a Website with ideas from photography enthusiasts and professionals backs CAPTAIN. The work proposes steps to decompose a given amateurish shot into composition ingredients and compose them to bring the photographer a list of related and valuable ideas that researchers have not explored in the past. The work addresses personal preferences for composition by presenting a user-specified preference list of photography ideas. The framework extracts ingredients of a given scene as a set of composition-related features ranging from low-level features such as color, pattern, and texture to high-level features such as pose, category, rating, gender, and object. Our composition model, indexed offline, provides visual ideas for the given scene, a novel model for an aesthetics-related recommender system. The matching algorithm recognizes the best shot among a sequence of photos concerning the user's preferred style set. We have conducted many experiments on the proposed components and reported findings. Also, this study is backed by a comprehensive user study demonstrating that the work is helpful to those taking photos.
Download or read book Photographic Composition written by Tom Grill and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An approach to photographic composition explains how to use a variety of composition principles and techniques and photographic equipment to create special photographic effects.
