Langford's Starting Photography, 6th Edition

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Tackling DifferentPhotographic Subjects

Many aspects of picture composition apply to all photography, as the examples in Part 1 showed. Technical controls too, such as the camera settings you make, choice of lenses and uses of flash, also play an influential role. But then again, the kind of subject you choose to photograph presents its own possibilities and problems. This part looks, therefore, at a range of subject situations with these points in mind. Potentially interesting subjects include people, places, animals, landscapes, small objects in close-up… the list is almost endless. Despite the range of these topics, it is probably true to ...