Creative Composition: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques

Sometimes you get the best results by breaking the rules, but first you have to know what the rules are! In this indispensable photography guide, renowned photographer Harold Davis first walks you through the recommended guidelines for composing great shots with your DSLR camera-and then shows you how to break free, build your own unique style, and compose beautiful images with confidence.

Provides practical composition basics as well as the artistic tips and tricks eagerly sought by digital SLR camera lovers, who are growing in number as DSLR camera sales continue to grow
Explores the fundamental rules of composition-then how to break those rules to take captivating and unique images
Informs and inspires you with the author's own gorgeous examples of landscapes, portraits, close-ups, and other photos that illustrate his concepts
Helps you jump-start your creativity by showing you new ways to see
Go beyond the basics and create a photography style that's all your own with this must-have guide.

Cameras don't take pictures; people do. This book, with Harold Davis's exquisite photos on nearly every page, teaches you professional composition tips and techniques that advance your skills to a new level.

Learn how to pre-visualize photos and compose images in your imagination. See in advance where your choices of lenses, lighting, focal length, and exposure will take you. Take advantage of RAW format. Master depth of field. Discover how to work with shapes, lines, and patterns, and so much more.

Each breathtaking image in this book illustrates a compositional point. Davis explains what he had in mind and how he composed the photo to achieve his objective. The technical details are there, too: lens used, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lighting conditions, and other relevant data.

Read. Look. Indulge. And learn.

Unleash the power of your imagination

Learn to pre-visualize photos

Find what's important about your subject

Frame photos for impact

Recognize powerful compositions

Find magic in everyday objects

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Wiley (October 26, 2009)
Language: English