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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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PART 3

DIVIDING

Image

There is not always something to divide in an image. Think horizon line and you have the cleanest and clearest example of a necessary division, but many images are just too complex, or too simple, to lend themselves to any useful kind of division. At its crudest, you need lines to divide a frame, and the straighter they are, the cleaner the partition. Horizons are known and expected, and in a way are the equivalent of the single subject against a plain background that opened the last chapter (page 30). That is, you have to put them somewhere: high, middle, or low. But there are other lines that may sneak up on you and insist on ...

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