In an age over-saturated with photographic imagery, Design Principles for Photography demonstrates how design awareness can add a new level of depth to your images. By adapting and experimenting with the tried and tested techniques used by graphic designers every day, you can add dynamism and impact to your imagery, whatever the style or genre - something that today's editors, curators and publishers are all crying out for.
The second edition includes examples of unsuccessful compositions, annotated images highlighting key techniques and an expanded glossary. There's also a new section on movements in photography and their reflection in composition, including modernism, expressionism, and surrealism and interviews with international practitioners discussing how they've included design principles in their work.
Featured topics: Basic design theory; the use of space; positional decisions; the elements of design; line; shape or form; space; texture; light; colour; pattern; rhythm; contrast; scale and proportion; abstraction; movement and flow; containment; emphasis and emotion; justaposition; incongruity; mood and emotion.
Arvustused
Webb offers a beautifully designed and very useful introduction to the creative composition of a photograph ... Provides readers with authoritative principles and superb photographic examples ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels, all libraries. - CHOICE (of the first edition)
Muu info
A beautifully illustrated introduction to the use of design methodology in the creation of photographic images, helping photographers incorporate line, shape, color, space, texture and light into their creative work.
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The role of the viewfinder in photography |
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The rules and when to break them |
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Photographic genres -- Still life photography |
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Styles and movements -- Pictorialism |
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Exercise 2 Design limitations |
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Photographic genres -- Fine art photography |
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3 First design principles |
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Exercise 3 Form and structure |
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Photographic genres -- Landscape photography |
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Styles and movements -- Surrealism |
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Actual and illusory depth |
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Exercise 4 Abstract images |
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Photographic genres -- Stock photography |
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Photographic genres -- Constructed or staged photography |
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Photographic genres -- Photojournalism and documentary photography |
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Styles and movements -- Modernism |
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Focus areas vs areas of de-focus |
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Photographic genres -- Editorial photography |
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7 Putting it all together |
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Expressing views and visions |
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Symbolism as visual shorthand |
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Exercise 7 Concepts and ideas |
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Photographic genres -- Design and conceptual photography |
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Styles and movements -- Postmodernism: Predominantly 1960s to 1990s |
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| Conclusion |
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| Glossary |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Jeremy Webb, Distance Learning Tutor, UK Distance Learning & Publishing, UK. Jeremy is a photographer and tutor with 30 years' experience. His work with 'light painting' has been featured in the British Journal of Photography, as well as numerous published portfolios and websites.
