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What’s Your Point of View?
IN THE LAST CHAPTER’S DISCUSSION of line and shape, I mentioned that our perspective with the camera (our position or point of view) plays a part in how the lines and shapes find their final relationships in the photograph itself. It is one thing to accept this on a fundamental level, but it’s another thing entirely to embrace it as an extraordinary creative tool in the making of our photographs.
When painters paint their pictures, they are unbound by anything but the limits of their imagination and skill. They put the barn where they choose in order to balance it against the mountain in the background, and they strategically place the tree where it will balance out the whole canvas. You and I have fewer choices, ...
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