Books related to photography composition

"Digital Photography Composition from Beginner to Master"

How do we need to learn composition well? Having my first camera is like being transported into a magical world. We use it to record every touching moment in our life journey and freeze it into a beautiful memory that can be preserved and shared forever. We all hope that our works can attract attention and win everyone's admiration. However, we often feel that our photos are not professional enough. Why are some people’s works more attractive? A lot depends on the composition! Excellent photographers have a strong ability to select and arrange scenery, just like arranging words and sentences, combing and arranging the scenery, and expressing them through the lens through their own unique perspective. So, how can we learn to compose pictures well?

Composition starts with observation and imitation

When we explore an unfamiliar area and learn a new skill, observation and imitation are the best teachers. Look at other people's works. , especially excellent works, are a direct way of reference and learning. In our daily lives, paintings, television, movies, photos, advertisements, etc. all convey a public aesthetic standard. Consciously analyze, sort out, enrich this knowledge, and apply it to photography. You will find that you have improved your composition skills in this subtle way.

Know the classic composition rules by heart

There will be some personal limitations in the analysis and summary in daily life. After you have some basic understanding of composition, You should systematically learn some classic composition rules. For example, the golden section and the rule of thirds, focusing the eye through the frame, making full use of contrast, focusing on lines and momentary movements, etc. These rules are summed up by many photographers through continuous practice. Memorizing them is a shortcut to learning composition.

Let the composition method jump out automatically

Just remembering some typical composition rules does not mean you can take excellent photography. Good composition awareness is not something that can be achieved overnight. It requires hard work and continuous practice to become good at it. A simple method is to collect some excellent works of similar scenes before each outdoor shooting and print them out as a reference. As long as you persist and practice for a long time, you will leave various composition techniques in your mind. When you are on-site shooting, the corresponding composition method will automatically pop up for you to choose. This is the result of more practice.

Break the rules and seek breakthroughs

For beginners, following the rules of composition often leads to better photos. However, in the wonderful world of photography, there is no completely fixed standard for "beauty." When we are able to skillfully use various composition techniques, following certain fixed composition patterns will often lead to a limited city. Only by mastering the rules and making breakthroughs and innovating can we take better and more impressive photos, form our own unique artistic style, and truly achieve "a better picture than a previous one"!

Author Light and Shadow Vision. Compiled

Publisher Science Press

Price: 58.00 yuan

Publication date: September 2010

No matter how you view photography, we all have to face the fact that simply owning expensive photographic equipment and mastering photographic technical knowledge is not enough to create excellent photographic works. To a large extent, the difference between good and mediocre work that leaves a lasting impression is composition! How to take good photos? First of all, pay attention to composition!

The purpose of this book is to help photography enthusiasts learn and master the methods and essentials of composition. The whole book is divided into 4 parts and 8 chapters around photographic composition.

The first part includes Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, which introduces how to cultivate a keen sense of composition and establish basic concepts of composition. Composition is not just about mastering the rules, but more importantly, broadening your horizons, cultivating an eye for good choices, and observing the world from a photographer's unique perspective. This part of the content allows readers to master the basic knowledge of composition while being inspired in the aesthetics of photography, and then use this knowledge to gain something in shooting practice.

The second part includes Chapters 3 and 4, focusing on effective composition methods and classic composition rules. These rules are summed up by many photographers through continuous practice. Proficient use of these rules is a shortcut to learning composition.

The third part focuses on the light and color in composition, including the characteristics of different light, selection and application of light, adjustment and control of color, reasonable matching and application of color, etc. Photography is the art of using light, and color injects emotion into the picture. Paying attention to the use of light and color is an indispensable element of excellent photography.

The fourth part introduces in detail the application of composition in photography practice. Including portrait photography, waterscapes, mountainscapes, trees, flowers, city street scenes, gardens and ancient buildings, exotic customs, animals and insects, still life food and many other photography topics, it will teach you how to integrate the composition rules you have learned into your photography practice. .

Each chapter in this book is carefully designed for readers. A large number of excellent works and real-life scenes can guide you to learn the techniques to improve the expressiveness of photos. The book also lists detailed analysis diagrams. and detailed shooting parameters to help you analyze and master their essentials and technical details in actual shooting.

This book is suitable for photography enthusiasts who want to take better photos. Mastering composition is a process of continuous learning, practice, and experience. Keep this book handy, practice as you go, and once you get the hang of it, you'll find that the rules of composition will naturally become a part of your thinking, and before long they'll become a habit! It’s no longer difficult to take photos that are no less impressive than those of experts.

"Extraordinary Photography Notes - Master's Composition Strategy"

Basic Information

Author: Gu Rongjun ISBN: 9787121108730

Pricing: 69

Publisher: Electronic Industry Press

Binding: Paperback

Publishing year: 2010-5

Content introduction

No matter how different your opinions on photographic composition are, you always have to admit one thing: good composition works are more influential and can produce a stronger impression than poor composition works. Therefore, the ultimate goal of photography is to increase the theme effect of the photo, but a photo without a theme, no matter how perfect the composition, is empty and failed. Composition is the process of identifying and organizing elements to produce a harmonious photograph. Every object in the photo is an element in the composition. Learning composition is like learning a language. Once you learn a language, it is no longer something you need to constantly test, because speaking is already a subconscious behavior, and what you say is the focus of your attention. I think the goal that photographers, photography enthusiasts, and photography enthusiasts should strive for should be to use the language of composition fluently to express what they want to express. Unlike other arts, photography is essentially an art of selection. A place in the real world must be chosen to frame it, and the main material organized and laid out within the framed area. And selection is actually about editing the picture consciously rather than passively including everything. Consider subjects that can be removed to simplify and enhance the message. You are successful when all the elements in your framework are functional and not wasted. I think that in photography, it is difficult to summarize the composition rules that can definitely make photos beautiful in the true sense. However, I suggest that photographers should test the conventional rules. Practice is still necessary, because only by testing can we Decide whether you will follow or break these rules. The freedom in photographic composition is achieved by following the rules and breaking the rules. The purpose of writing this book is to use my own practice to work with everyone to test the laws that have been familiar or ignored. I don’t recommend that we shoot according to the rules we practice. On the contrary, a beautiful photo may be obtained by breaking the rules. Let us start by understanding the rules and try to break them, so that we can achieve real progress through practice. Author Gu Rongjun

About the author

Media and educator, master's degree in photography art, leader of the photography teaching and research group of Shanghai Academy of Arts and Crafts; author of "Jiangnan on Paper" and "From Weihai to Yantai" "etc.

"Photographic Composition" 2nd Edition

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Author: Edited by Luo Xue

Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House Society

Publication date: 2009-11-1

Format: 16 pages

ISBN: 9787894762306

Price: ￥29.80

Introduction

Composition is the skeleton of photography and the basis for a good work. As an ideal reading material for learning photography composition, this manual is carefully created by the author, who has both professional photography skills and rich photography teaching experience, based on the needs and learning characteristics of junior and intermediate photography enthusiasts. The first part of the manual is divided into several chapters to introduce the basic knowledge of photographic composition, framing and conception. The second part is about practical techniques of photographic composition. It introduces in-depth various shooting topics such as portraits, scenery, plants, still life and so on with illustrated examples. The application of composition methods to various photographic subjects.

More than 300 composition cases, picture parameters and detailed explanations will open up the shooting tips of professional photographers for you, allowing you to not only master various composition forms, but also learn how to combine composition and framing. Creative thinking permeates every piece of your work. One day you will find that you can take pictures like a professional photographer.

Digital Photography Techniques Series: Photographic Composition

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Book Title: Digital Photography Techniques Series: Photographic Composition

Author: Jia Shadow Online

Publisher: China Youth Publishing House

Publishing time: 2009-6-1

ISBN: 9787500687474

Format: 16 pages

Pricing: 35.00 yuan

Introduction

This book is one of the "Digital Photography Skills Series" series of books. Photography creation is one of the means of artistic expression. Photographers use photography to express what they think and see about the world, and to show their creative intentions through photography. In short, photographic composition is when the photographer uses the most expressive form to fully express the object he wants to photograph in the picture based on his own creative ideas and the photographic equipment used.

Therefore, successful photography works are the perfect combination of content and form. Excellent and creative composition plays a decisive role in the picture.

By studying various rules of photographic composition, this book explores how to better express the beauty of form in every inch from both theoretical and practical parts. Each part is divided into 5 chapters.

Editor's recommendation

In daily life, how to record wonderful moments, moving food, and picturesque scenery in photos through the camera lens, composition and framing are important shooting factors . This book is divided into two parts: basic knowledge of photographic composition and practical shooting of photographic composition. It starts with a quick introduction to photographic composition, and then introduces knowledge such as composition elements, artistic expression methods, composition methods, etc., and then introduces characters, scenery, animals, plants, still life, etc. Composition techniques for various shooting themes, and how to flexibly apply various composition methods to obtain perfect photos.

"Photographic Composition"

Basic information

Book title: Photographic Composition

Author: Guo Yanmin

Book Category: Travel/Photography

Publisher: Communication University of China Press

ISBN: 9787811273656

Issue date: March 2011

Region: Mainland

Language: Simplified Chinese

Series Title: Practical Textbooks for Radio and Television Majors in the 21st Century

Edition: 2

Number of pages: 234

Printing time: 2011-3-1

Format: 16 pages

Paper: Offset paper

Printing times : 1

Packaging: Paperback

Content Introduction

Photographic composition is the core task of photographic creation. "Photographic Composition (2nd Edition)" mainly teaches the internal composition issues of photographic picture creation, including the artistic rules of composition, processing of picture composition elements, use of shooting angles, and color processing. Main contents such as light processing and sports photography. "Photographic Composition (2nd Edition)" has made major adjustments to the chapter structure and content of the first edition, strengthened the depth of theory, added some new illustrations of pictures and photography and examples of film and television works, and deleted some old ones. Legend and text. "Photographic Composition (2nd Edition)" can be used as a textbook for photography majors and directing majors in various universities. Radio and television directing major. It is a basic course textbook for students majoring in lighting art and television journalism to learn professional knowledge of photography. It can also be used as a reference textbook for amateur photography enthusiasts to learn picture photography and film and television photography.

About the author

Guo Yanmin, associate professor and master's tutor, currently teaches in the Photography Department of the School of Film and Television Arts, Communication University of China. He graduated from the China Youth Institute of Political Science in 1994 and received a bachelor's degree in law in 1997. He graduated from the Television Department of Beijing Broadcasting Institute with a Master of Arts degree in 2003. In the same year, he stayed at the school to teach. In 2003, he began studying for a PhD in Radio and Television Arts at Communication University of China, in the history and theory of TV dramas.