The Enthusiast's Guide to Composition: 48 Photographic Principles You Need to Know - Softcover

Plicanic, Khara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1681981300 ISBN 13: 9781681981307

Publisher: Rocky Nook, 2016

Synopsis

If you’re a passionate photographer and you’re ready to take your work to the next level, The Enthusiast’s Guide book series was created just for you. Whether you’re diving head first into a new topic or exploring a classic theme, Enthusiast’s Guides are designed to help you quickly learn more about a topic or subject so that you can improve your photography.

The Enthusiast’s Guide to Composition: 48 Photographic Principles You Need to Know addresses what you need to know in order to shoot great images with powerful compositions. Chapters are broken down into a series of numbered lessons, with each lesson providing all you need to improve your photography. In this book, which is divided into nine chapters that include 48 photographic lessons to help you create strong compositions, photographer and author Khara Plicanic covers lens selection, light, color, lines, movement, and more. Example lessons include:

• Consider the Rule of Thirds
• Make Things Pop with Contrast
• Find a Frame Within the Frame
• Add Depth with Foreground
• Keep an Eye on the Sky, and Watch the Clock
• Setting the Scene
• Go Get the Shot
• Make Sense of Maximum Aperture
• Finding (or Making) Soft Light
• Cull Like a Pro

Written in a friendly and approachable manner and illustrated with examples that drive home each lesson, The Enthusiast’s Guide to Composition is designed to be effective and efficient, friendly and fun. Read an entire chapter at once, or read just one topic at a time. With either approach, you’ll quickly learn a lot so you can head out with your camera to capture great shots.

About this title

About the Author

A professional photographer, author, and public speaker, Khara Plicanic's unique teaching style and playful sense of humor have endeared her to audiences around the globe. She’s the author of several books, including Getting Started in Digital Photography, Wicked Fast Workflow, and Album Moxie, where Khara rescues photographers from themselves with the magic of InDesign. She believes in good design, an efficiently effective workflow, and all things covered in chocolate. Find her on instagram @kplicanic and online at kharaplicanic.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rocky Nook
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681981300
• ISBN 13: 9781681981307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168