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Dedicated to mastering photography as a visual language, this book helps you explore what to shoot and how to understand your own work. With 21 detailed chapters on photography techniques and practices, Forbes teaches you not only to establish yourself as a photographer, but how to create a legacy
Ted Forbes produces The Art of Photography, the most popular YouTube channel on photography, providing a 360-degree look into the world of image making. Forbes’ passion is to help amateurs, artists, and professionals alike gain new skills. Forbes calls on his expertise to instruct you on how to take pictures, and carefully walks readers through composition, lighting, exposure, contrast, color, alignment, balance, repetition, cameras, lenses, and more. Rising above a simple photography skills handbook, Forbes also offers advice on commitment, integrity, what it means to be an artist, and navigating the social media landscape.
Ted Forbes’ award-winning work centers around photography education. He has worked with many of the most renowned photographers of our generation as part of his Artist Series project, including Keith Carter, Harold Feinstein, Laura Wilson, Alexey Titarenko, Graciela Iturbide, Lourdes Grobet, William Wegman, David Brookover, and Pedro Meyer. He has also collaborated with companies including Apple, Leica, Hasselblad, Sony, Nikon, Canon, and Fujifilm.
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Black and White, page 147
When we reduce an image down to the essence of light using only monochrome, the image is defined by shapes and textures. These have to fall on the continuum of the gray scale somewhere, and you must understand that there is a point when texture becomes too dark or too light and loses its definition.
Monochrome is the essence of photography, since it represents light on its own. If an image doesn’t work in black and white then it’s not going to be very strong in color. There are a few exceptions to this in the history of photography, but on the whole that statement is true.
Texture, page 225
In a two-dimensional composition, texture plays a very important role in how objects appear “real.” Without texture, things feel flat and removed from reality. We see texture in everything that has a surface. The texture of skin is extremely important in portraits. Without texture, snow would appear as large, flat areas of white. Texture is also what defines an object that is still visible in a shadow.
Texture is very dependent on exposure. If an object is not exposed correctly, the micro-contrast starts to change what we perceive as texture, and we lose the feeling of reality.
Rule of Thirds, page 242
If you take any image ground and divide it into equal thirds, both horizontally and vertically, you will get a grid like in the example shown. This is the phi grid. The rule of thirds indicates that points of interest occur at the points of line intersection. Most cameras today allow you to see this grid on the viewfinder so you always have a template to work with. The same could also be said for long horizontal or vertical subjects. You’ll have more interest lining these up to the third division.
Publisher : Cider Mill Press (December 17, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 1646434358
ISBN-13 : 978-1646434350
Item Weight : 1.71 pounds
Dimensions : 8 x 1.24 x 9.99 inches
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