INTRODUCTION

Image

This book takes as it’s starting point my earlier The Photographer’s Eye, which deliberately concentrated on how the image works rather than how the camera works. One of the things I realized with that book and its sequels was that often it would have been simpler in explaining a point about composition or color to have bypassed words and instead relied more on a purely visual explanation. That’s the premise here. Words to a necessary minimum, with visuals carrying the story. The decision also allowed me to indulge my love of making illustrations, although you might wonder why a photographer would be illustrating when he has a camera. ...

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