Book description
The greatly revised and expanded edition of The Elements of Photography is a new kind of textbook for a new generation of photographers. Moving far beyond the usual technical manual, Angela Faris Belt dives deep into merging technique and vision, allowing you to master craft while adding meaning to your images. Here you'll really learn to see photographically, expand your creative and conceptual use of apertures and shutter speeds, and choose the right media to create the look and feel you want.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: It’s Elemental
- Introduction: The Grammar of Photographic Language
- Chapter 1 Before You Begin
- Chapter 2 Metering and Exposure
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Chapter 3 Framing, Borders, and Multiple Frames
- Part 1: Framing
- Introduction: Framing, the First Photographic Element
- Conscious Framing, Visual Quality, and Photographic Meaning
- Organizing the Frame: Picture Planes, Vantage Point, and Juxtaposition
- Visual Variety
- Contact Sheets: Key to Choosing the Best Frame
- Cropping: A Second Chance to Frame it Right
- Chapter Exercises, Part 1: Framing Your Subject in Conscious Ways
- Portfolio Pages
- Part 2: Borders, The Exterior Edges of the Frame
- Introduction: What Purpose Does a Border Serve?
- Traditional Darkroom Borders and Techniques
- The Digital Realm: Borders without Film
- Chapter Exercises, Part 2: Experimenting with Borders
- Part 3: Multiple Frames to Create a Single Image
- Introduction: Extending the Frame
- Gestalt Images
- Chapter Exercises, Part 3: A Faceted Approach to Your Subject
- Portfolio Pages
- Chapter 4 Apertures: Focus, Lenses, and Clarity
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Chapter 5 Shutter Speeds: Time and Motion
- Part 1: Shutter Speeds, The Third Photographic Element
- Shutter Speeds: A Brief Technical Review
- Affecting Visual Quality and Photographic Meaning with Time
- The Decisive Moment: Three Intersecting Factors
- Transcribing Time onto a Photograph
- Chapter Exercises, Part 1: Using Shutter Speeds with Your Subject
- Portfolio Pages
- Part 2: Multiple Moments in Time
- Introduction: Combining Shutter Speeds to Expand Meaning
- Overlapped Time: Multiple Moments in a Single Frame
- Sequences: Spacing Multiple Frames
- Scanner as Camera: When the Medium Moves
- Moving Single Image Frames
- Chapter Exercises, Part 2: Experimenting with Multiple Moments
- Portfolio Pages
- Chapter 6 Materials, Processes, and Presentation: The Aggregate Image
- Conclusion
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Elements of Photography, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136103414
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