This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. This concludes the Frames section of our study on Visualization. We will complete another exercise to pull all of these concepts together and then beginning with the next article move into Design Basics….
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. What is the Golden Ratio? The answer is 1.618… No, this is not the answer to the question ‘What is the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything?‘ which is 42. If you…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. Note that we skipped EYE 3 and will return to it at a later date. With this essay we begin discussing the division of the Frame. The subject of the image divides the…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. Our second essay will begin discussing the placement of the subject within the Frame. We will begin with a rather broad overview and then several essays on subjects with fairly plain backgrounds and…
The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman is a superb text on learning to visualize an image with a camera and create art. In my introductory post I gave you an overview of the book and told you I would be creating a group of essays on the text, each with…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. Michael Freeman starts out his book, The Photographer’s Eye, by defining the shape of the image we will spend the rest of our study discussing. We call this, the Frame Shape. When we…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. On my recent trip to the west coast, I read a book I found in Barnes & Noble. The title caught my eye, but the content as I flipped it made me purchase…
The Exposure of a photograph determines several key aspects of the photograph: a) is the photograph exposed well enough to keep b) what is the mood of the photograph The first item is paramount to good photography. A great composition with a lousy exposure means the photograph is no good….