Just opened The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman. Not an easy read as it deals with composition and design so quite heavy in places by the looks of it. I'll probably do a proper write up on this book if I'm still sane (it's all relative!) at the end of it.
Love a couple of lines in the intro by Paul Strand:-
The important decisions in photography, digital or otherwise, are those concerned with the image itself: the reasons for taking it, and the way it looks. The technology, of course, is vital, but the best it can do is help realise ideas and perception.
One important reason why intuitive rather than informed photography is so common is that shooting is such an easy, immediate process. This means that a picture can always be taken casually and without thought, and because it can, it often is. In other graphic arts design is taught as a matter of course, in photography it receives less attention than it deserves.
The comprehensive control (offered by digital workflow) increases the need to consider the image and it's possibilities even more carefully.
Chapter one, here I come!
Love a couple of lines in the intro by Paul Strand:-
The important decisions in photography, digital or otherwise, are those concerned with the image itself: the reasons for taking it, and the way it looks. The technology, of course, is vital, but the best it can do is help realise ideas and perception.
One important reason why intuitive rather than informed photography is so common is that shooting is such an easy, immediate process. This means that a picture can always be taken casually and without thought, and because it can, it often is. In other graphic arts design is taught as a matter of course, in photography it receives less attention than it deserves.
The comprehensive control (offered by digital workflow) increases the need to consider the image and it's possibilities even more carefully.
Chapter one, here I come!
