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Chapter 8
Finding and
Composing a Photo
EXPLORING THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY
As with most creative endeavors, you can divide your photographic
study into two areas: craft and artistry. Craft encompasses your technical
understanding of photographic process—how different parameters affect
your image and how you use the controls on your camera to set those
parameters. Artistry is the process of using your craft skill to represent a
scene, or person, or moment as a photographic image—ideally an image
that evokes something of the “truth” of your subject that you felt when
shooting. In this chapter, we’re going to focus on the artistry side of things
and explore how you visualize and compose an image.