52 Assignments: Composition is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.
This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with a year’s worth of weekly commissions and concepts that challenge photographers to expand their knowledge of how to compose photographs, considering framing and positioning to guide the viewer’s eye and create movement. This book explores compositional techniques in fresh and challenging ways, allowing photographers to capture their favorite subjects in a new light.
Full of technical advice and professional tips, it includes journal space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal to record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your photographs.
Introduction 6
Casting shadows 8
Leading the way 10
Highs and lows 14
Find and frame 16
Staring down the story 18
Living on the edge 22
In living color 24
Obscure and distort 26
Drama in the dark 28
Bits and pieces 30
Third times the charm 32
Oddly satisfying 34
Blurred vision 36
Against the flow 38
Feel the frame 40
Empty yet full 42
Changing your Perspective 44
Repeat after me 46
Triangle tactics 50
A balancing act 52
A thousand words 54
Near and far 56
Keep it simple 58
The center of attention 60
In the front row 62
Paint the town 64
The shape of things 68
The beauty of balance 70
See things differently 72
Feeling color 74
The minds eye 76
Edge to edge 80
The motion picture 82
The golden eye 84
Go beyond color 86
Double vision 88
Shoot for the stars 90
Into the night 92
Weather watchers 96
Into the blue 98
On the edge 100
A feast for the eyes 102
On the move 104
A time for reflection 106
In the blink of an eye 110
Let it glow 112
Front and center 114
Perfectly unbalanced 116
Layer by layer 118
Opposites attract 120
Point of no return 122
Shape your vision 124
Index 126
Antony Zacharias is an award-winning photographer who specializes in long exposure photography. He uses a variety of techniques to create fine art prints in landscape, travel, urban and night sky photography. Antony is particularly known for his vivid architectural images and his unique perspectives on cities ranging from New York and London to Amsterdam and Paris. His work has been commissioned by clients including Toyota US and Sky Atlantic, and published by the BBC, Guardian, Times and Ecologist; and he was a finalist in the National Geographic Traveller competition. He offers tutorials and sells fine art images on his website, antonyz.com.
