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Do the Elements Repeat?
PHOTOGRAPHY HAS MUCH IN COMMON with graphic design. In fact, photography is graphic design—the arrangement of graphic or visual elements to say a certain thing. That we do not learn more from that discipline continues to baffle me, though I wonder if it’s because in popular photography culture we tend to rely on the quality of our cameras for the quality of our images, whereas graphic designers have never had the luxury of believing their tools had much to do with the arrangement of elements on the page. That’s a whole other sermon, but it highlights an opportunity for the photographer who is willing to study how graphic designers use basic design principles like contrast, alignment, balance, and repetition.
Repetition ...
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