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- This book, which includes 170 photographs, introduce a wide variety of techniques that can easily be applied to your own photography, including:
- · The rule of thirds
- · Centered subjects
- · Positioning the horizon
- · Showing depth in two dimensions
- · Incorporating horizontal, curved and zigzag lines and circles
- · Using triangles in compositions
- · Showing perspective with receding lines
- · Using framing and overlapping to show depth
- · Using atmospheric layers to show distance
- · Showing distance by using relative scale
- · Focal length and focus point as compositional techniques
- · Using lighting and texture in compositions
- · Color priority and color contrast
- · Single dominant elements in compositions
- · Incorporating balance and weight
- · Symmetry and asymmetry in compositions
- · The rule of odds
- · Using repeating elements
- · Simplicity as a compositional technique
- · Using themes as organizing principles
- · Having creative fun in composition
- · Combining multiple compositional elements
Written especially for beginning and intermediate landscape photographers, it includes 170 color and B&W photos along with instructional captions to illustrate the concepts presented.
