
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. More
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:
- There are no rules
- Study the form
- Embed an idea
- Bisociate
- One step further
- Mistrust experience
- Zen and photography
- The iconic detail
- Full immersion
- Soul and opinion
- Be curious
- The overlooked
- Your own life and world
- Crossover
- Cross-cultural inspiration
- Homage
- Shock
- Known subject, different view
- Juxtapose
- Have things happen
- Unguarded expression
- Out of place
- Coincidence
- Comedy
- The unxpected guest
- The reveal
- Ornamental action
- Make it fit your geometry
- Alignments
- Breakout
- Push the composition
- Reduce
- Elaborate
- Don't show everything
- Disquiet
- Mystery and intrigue
- Dig into your repertoire
- Cultivate the casual
- Surrealism and the found
- Photo illustration
- Fall in love with a lens
- Work the light
- Extreme light
- Make light the subject
- Make colour the subject
- Body of work
- Try a typology
- Variations
- The third effect
- Processing
Recommended reading
Index
Picture credits
Product Specification
Author | Michael Freeman |
Year | 2016 |