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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

How to Use This Book to Create Amazing Photos

Acknowledgements

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL COMPOSITION GUIDES AND TOOLS

1.Framing: Put an Edge around It

2.Landscape Format

3.Portrait Format

4.Turn at an Angle

5.Points of Thirds

6.Geometry Can be a Pleasure

7.Leading Lines Direct Attention

8.Diagonal Lines Can Add Movement, Interest, and Vitality.

9.Symmetry Can Delight the Eye

10.Capturing the Decisive Moment

11.Punctuation Points In your Photographs

12.Capture a Gesture at the “Decisive Moment”

13.Angles Are Like an Author’s Choice of Words

14.Viewpoint: How You See Your Subject

15.Steelyard Composition Is Balanced

16.“L” Shape Composition

17.Grouped Shape Composition

18.Three Spot Composition

19.Silhouette Composition

20.Tunnel Composition

21.Patterns Can Be Engaging

22.The Golden Ratio Proportions

23.S-Curve Composition Leads the Eye Gracefully

24.Circular or “O” Composition Invites the Eye to Stay Within

25.U-Composition Invites You to Look Within

26.Triangle Composition Provides Stability and Strength

27.Radiating Lines Lead to the Center of Interest

28.Cross Composition and Eye Movement

29.Balance Scale Composition

30.Find Contrast In Your Image

31.Fill the Frame by Getting Close to Your Subjects

32.Pull Back to Capture the Story

33.Place Dominant Eye in the Center of Photo

34.Use Color as a Powerful Composition Tool

PART TWO: COMPOSITION LINES THAT CONVEY MOODS IN YOUR IMAGE

Mood Lines Convey Feelings or States of Mind

35.Active

36.Passive

37.Structural, solid, strong

38.Nonstructural, fluid, soft

39.Stable

40.Unstable

41.Stable

42.Unstable

43.Positive, bold, forceful

44.Tenuous, uncertain, wavering

45.The vertical—noble, dramatic, inspirational, aspiring

46.The horizontal—earthy, calm, mudane, satisfied

47.Primitive, simple, bold

48.Effusive

49.Flamboyant

50.Refined

51.Jagged, brutal, hard, vigorous, masculine, picturesque

52.Curvilinear, tender, soft, pleasant, feminine, beautiful

53.Rough, rasping, grating

54.Smooth, swelling, sliding

55.Decreasing, contracting

56.Increasing, expanding

57.Dynamic

58.Static, focal, fixed

59.In motion

60.Meandering, casual, relaxed, interesting, human

61.Erratic, bumbling, chaotic, confused

62.Logical, planned, orderly

63.Flowing, rolling

64.Formal, priestly, imperious, dogmatic

65.Rising, optimistic, successful, happy

66.Falling, pessimistic, defeated, depressed

67.Indecisive, weak

68.Progressive

69.Regressive

70.Rise, attainment with effort, improvement

71.Fall, sinking without effort, improvement

72.Indirect, plodding

73.Concentrating, assembling

74.Dispersing, Fleeing

75.Broken, interrupted, severed

76.Direct, sure, forceful, with purpose

77.Opposing

78.Connecting crossing

79.Parallel, opposing with harmony

80.Excited, nervous, jittery

81.Opposing with friction

82.Diverging, dividing

83.Growing, developing

PART THREE: PUTTING YOUR TOOLS TOGETHER AND FINAL TIPS

Endnotes

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