By Rob Sheppard, Art Wolfe
Contributor note: Foreword through Dewitt Jones
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Learn to take larger images during this step by step, how-to images consultant choked with pointers on lighting fixtures, gear, notion, and more.
Featuring greater than 2 hundred of grasp photographer artwork Wolfe's wonderful pictures, The paintings of the photo helps beginner photographers of all degrees holiday undesirable conduct and shatter universal but wrong assumptions that carry many photographers again. this is often Wolfe's final grasp classification, within which he stocks an important insights and strategies realized in 4 a long time of award-winning images. besides co-author Rob Sheppard, Wolfe demanding situations us to prevent targeting topics we suppose we should always photo and as an alternative, to "see like a digicam sees," search out a private standpoint, and build gorgeous, significant photos. You'll additionally find out how to:
· Reexamine prejudices that outline (and restrict) what you photograph
· See past the topic to permit mild and shadow lead you to the precise image
· locate notion, together with the tale at the back of Wolfe's personal photographic journey.
· Use formal paintings rules to construct extra compelling images.
· decide on the best digicam and lens for the picture you notice on your mind's eye.
· realize the ten lethal sins of composition--and how one can steer clear of them.
· ...and even get a behind-the-lens examine Wolfe's gear and workflow.
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