Mastering Composition and Action

Kodak experts show you how to take more creative pictures one step at a time. 300 phjotographs and diagrams give practical tips and inspiration.

The ability to create order from the visual jumble of life is what photography is all about. This splendidly illustrated book shows you how you can train your eyes to see the world as the camera sees it - selectively - and how you can improve the quality and impact of your pictures by learning to organise key pictoral elements in the viewfinder.

In addition to explaining how to use these elements of shape or form, pattern or texture, scale or depth, Part One of the book concentrate on light and exposure as the basis of all photographic composition. Photographs, captions and text work together to provide practical tips and striking examples of each teaching point.

Part Two of the book looks at movement as a specially important e;ement of compostion and describes a whole range of techniques that that enable yoy to freeze the action or show it fluidly by varying shutter speed. Equipment for action photography is examined in detail and there is a fascinating sport-by-sport survey showing professional tricks of anticipation, timing and viewpoint that that will help you capture the drama of movement in everything from swimming to hang-gliding, canoeing to motor racing.