Posted by Andrew on November 16th 2011
There’s no such thing as “correct” composition, just bad composition, good composition, and inspired composition.
At the beginning of the year I decided to analyse some of my favourite images to see if I could understand more about their composition. I’ve always been an instinctive photographer – I’ve never thought much about why I compose photos a certain way. I tend to know when the composition looks good in the viewfinder, and that approach has always worked for me. But what if I could identify some of the principles of composition in my strongest images? Could I then apply them consciously and improve my photography? I think so, and along the way I realised that I was discovering things that would be useful to other photographers too. The result is Beyond Thirds: A Photographer’s Guide to Creative Composition, released today by Craft & Vision.
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Posted by Andrew on April 12th 2011
There’s a gap in my ‘The Magic of Black & White’ eBook series – Lightroom doesn’t get a mention – mainly because I used Photoshop CS when I wrote those eBooks (and still do). Luckily, Piet Van den Eynde has stepped up and filled in the gap with a superb new eBook: The Power of Black & White in Adobe Lightroom and Beyond (A Masterclass).
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Posted by Andrew on January 19th 2011
Winter in the Canadian Rockies is the latest Craft & Vision eBook. It’s written by Canadian fine art and landscape photographer Darwin Wiggett. You may well have seen some of Darwin’s work already – he was the winner of the Travel Photographer of the Year competition a couple of years ago and his photos have been published in numerous photography magazines (including EOS magazine).
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Posted by Andrew on September 30th 2010
I first came across Mitchell Kanashkevich’s work a couple of years ago and I was so impressed by it that I asked him to participate in an interview on my blog right away (you can read it here). His photos are subtle and powerful, and show a mastery of light, composition and use of colour.
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Posted by Andrew on September 09th 2010
What do you do if you find yourself in a place with spectacular scenery, yet the weather is awful? One of the first things we learn as photographers is about light – and that you need good light to take great photos, especially landscapes.
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