Description
Book SynopsisThe difference between seeing and looking is essentialmuch like the difference, in music, between hearing and listening. In Creative Visualization, master photographer, photo educator and photo instructor Rick Sammon presents his proven methodology for creative digital photography. His signature inspiring and motivating approach opens creative avenues for photographers in a variety of genres.
With easy-to-follow examples, Sammon shows you how simple changeswith visualization, composition, post-processing, and morecan mean the difference between a snapshot and a great shot. This book, illustrated with more than 300 of Rick's photographs, includes invaluable information about exposure, composition, subject choice, lighting, mood, and depth.
In the Food for Thought section, Rick offers guidelines for setting goals, getting motivated, connecting with a subject, learning, painting with light, thinking like a painter and more. In Develop Your Creative Vision<
Table of Contents
Part I: Developing Your Creative Mind 1. Four Levels of Learning 2. Photography and the Space-Time Continuum 3. Making Image with Impact (Light, Subject, Color, Contrast, Abstract, Action, Lens, Exposure, Mood, Participation, Altered Reality, HDR, Processing) 4. Setting Goals 5. Why We Like the Work of Master Painters 6. Making Order Out of Chaos 7. Photography: The Death of Reality & The Birth of Creativity 8. Photographic Philosophies Part II Developing Your Creative Vision 9. Seeing the light: contrast, direction, color, quality, intensity, and movement 10. Thoughts on the Histogram 11. Importance of a good/interesting subject 12. Seeing in 2-D vs. seeing in 3-D 13. The mood of the image 14. Follow Your Passion and Heart: Wildlife, People, Landscape, City shooting, Nature Part III: Capturing and Controlling the Moment 15. Composition: Rules and Breaking the Rules 16. Exposure 17. Controlling Light 18. Color 19. Dumb Luck Shots Part IV: Corrective Image 20. Exposure 21. Color 22. Contrast Processing Part V: Creative Image Processing 23. The Art of the Crop 24. Black and White Imaging 25. Basic Image Processing 26. Playing with Plug-ins 27. HDR Part VI: Telling a Story with Stills
