“Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?” –Henri Cartier-Bresson Discussions of photographic composition almost invariably preach for simplification. Elements in the frame that do not directly contribute to the aesthetic appeal of an image [...]
At long last, my new eBook “Creative Landscape Photography” is now available for purchase! As some of you may be able to attest, the majority of instructional photography books focus on camera operation and are aimed towards newcomers to the practice of photography. This eBook picks up where others leave off and is aimed at [...]
My article “The ABCs of Composition” is featured in the June, 2010 edition of PopPhoto Magazine.
It is a long standing tradition in photography that the person who clicks the shutter button gets to claim all accolades for the resulting image, whether it is their own original concept and composition or a blatant copy of someone else’s. Chalk it up to maturity of each art form, but in music there’s a [...]
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