Fifty Paths to Creative Photography

The Fifty Paths to Creative Photography guide by Michael Freeman provides the reader with 50 "paths" they can explore to think about taking photos, looking at subjects from cliché to zen, so you will be able to hit the right point in surprise, originality, insight and execution every time. The book looks at the work of other great photographers, as well as Freeman's own work.

Contents:

1. There are no rules
2. Study the form
3. Embed an idea
4. Bisociate
5. One step further
6. Mistrust experience
7. Zen and photography
8. The iconic detail
9. Full immersion
10. Soul and opinion
11. Be curious
12. The overlooked
13. Your own life and world
14. Crossover
15. Cross-cultural inspiration
16. Homage
17. Shock
18. Known subject, different view
19. Juxtapose
20. Have things happen
21. Unguarded expression
22. Out of place
23. Coincidence
24. Comedy
25. The unxpected guest
26. The reveal
27. Ornamental action
28. Make it fit your geometry
29. Alignments
30. Breakout
31. Push the composition
32. Reduce
33. Elaborate
34. Don't show everything
35. Disquiet
36. Mystery and intrigue
37. Dig into your repertoire
38. Cultivate the casual
39. Surrealism and the found
40. Photo illustration
41. Fall in love with a lens
42. Work the light
43. Extreme light
44. Make light the subject
45. Make colour the subject
46. Body of work
47. Try a typology
48. Variations
49. The third effect
50. Processing

Recommended reading
Index
Picture credits