Once I had finally reached the stage where I understood the elements needed to compose a photograph I naturally progressed to how one looks at photographs. One of the first things I learned about composure and how to read a picture is that the western world composes pictures differently than the old Asian world. This [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘seeing’
July 8, 2008
How The Eye Sees
I have bought a number of books over the formative years of photography. As with any teachings, some of the books were good and some were bad. The best books that I read were those by Freeman Patterson, specifically Photographing the World Around You. This book thought me the building blocks of a [...]
