Composition Digital Field Guide (Paperback)

Composition requires purposeful placement of elements within the frame, including backgrounds, foregrounds, main subjects, and much more. It can take years to acquire strong compositional skills. That's where Composition Digital Field Guide comes in. Packed with full-color photos, this handy guide teaches you how to bring together photographic elements to produce photos that are unique, creative, and memorable.

• Addresses the skills required to master the art of good composition when taking digital photos
• Walks you through framing your images carefully, which is the first key step in capturing a strong photograph
• Features hundreds of stunning and inspiring full-color photos of people, wildlife, and landscapes
• Includes the newest feature of the Digital Field Guide series: a removable color checker card to help ensure true color in your photographs

It will be difficult to keep your composition while reading the invaluable advice in Composition Digital Field Guide!

Photo Examples from the Author

Not every shot can be set up, but with pre-planning you can use the rule of thirds to create a balanced shot, even when you don’t know exactly where the subject will be. Shooting a marathon, we knew roughly where the winners would be crossing the finish line. Since they wouldn’t be stopping, there wouldn't be a second chance. I shot the photo in portrait orientation to be able to capture both the runner and the time clock as she crossed the finish line. I tracked the runner as she made it round the last bend and took a series of photos as she came up to and crossed the finish line. You will notice that her head is one third down from the top and one third in from the right. The banner is one third up from the bottom, all using the rule of third compositionally. An added bonus is that the shadows at her feet and her outstretched arms all act as leading lines, drawing the eye into the image and to the runner.

There are patterns everywhere; some are just more obvious than others. These folk with linked hands who are participating in a protest at our local beach formed a regular pattern. What I love about this photo is that this is just a small segment of a larger view, but since the pattern is there and unbroken, it looks as if it could go on forever. There are no breaks, and there are no ending points. Our brains tell us that without more information, we can’t tell when and if the pattern ends.

The use of color by this performance artist was really great. The different white clothes, white makeup and white hair, punctuated by small bursts of red really worked well. There are at least four different shades of white in this image, but see if you can stop your eyes from traveling between the splashes of red. This is an image that needs to be seen in color, and it is the color that really helps create the look and feel overall. Because color can draw and lead the viewers attention, the small red hearts and flowers do a great job of keeping the viewer’s eye inside the image and drawing it back up to the eyes of the performer. Because the colors were so good, I composed the image in tight to fill the frame. Otherwise, you would have been able to see the colors on the wall behind her, which would have detracted for the photograph.

這本《Composition Digital Field Guide》是一本隨身攜帶的指南，幫助你在拍攝照片時創造出強大的構圖。構圖需要在畫面中有目的地安排元素，包括背景、前景、主題等等。獲得強大的構圖技巧可能需要多年的時間，而這本指南就是為此而生。這本手冊充滿了全彩照片，教導你如何將攝影元素結合起來，創造出獨特、有創意且令人難忘的照片。

這本指南涵蓋了掌握數位攝影構圖藝術所需的技巧，引導你仔細構圖，這是捕捉強大照片的第一個關鍵步驟。書中展示了數百張令人驚嘆和啟發的全彩人物、野生動物和風景照片。此外，這本《Digital Field Guide》系列的最新功能是一張可拆卸的色彩校準卡，可幫助確保照片的真實色彩。

在閱讀《Composition Digital Field Guide》中的寶貴建議時，保持你的構圖可能會有些困難！

作者提供的照片範例如下：

- 第一張照片展示了如何使用「三分法則」來創造平衡的構圖。在拍攝馬拉松比賽時，攝影師預先計劃好拍攝位置，並追蹤選手的動態，捕捉她越過終點線的瞬間。照片中的元素按照三分之一的比例分佈，同時利用陰影和伸展的手臂作為引導線，吸引觀眾的目光。

- 第二張照片展示了一個規律的圖案，由手牽手的人組成，他們正在參加一場抗議活動。這張照片只是整個場景的一小部分，但由於圖案的連續性，給人一種無限延伸的感覺。

- 第三張照片展示了一位表演藝術家巧妙運用顏色的效果。他穿著不同的白色服裝，搭配小小的紅色點綴，營造出獨特的視覺效果。

這本指南將幫助你提升構圖技巧，創造出令人印象深刻的照片。