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The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide
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The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide

by Michael Freeman
November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
192 pages
4h 8m
English
Routledge
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JUST

This is just a personal idea of mine, but one I like. Graphically, it means “almost touching.” A foot about to touch the ground; a door about to close; a bird about to land—there’s something of both the exact and the not-quite co-existing, which in a way is strange. It’s an idea in composition that hovers between complete and incomplete, which some people might think needs resolving, but one which I think is more interesting. Through the camera, the “just” moment does not need to be real. It needs simply to be apparent. Here, the man’s nose is not, of course, touching or about to touch anything, but the camera viewpoint introduces us to the graphic possibility. More to the point, the viewer’s eye is drawn to this uncertain area simply because ...

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