in just 30 days

The rules of photographic composition can be learned by anyone, and once you understand these rules, your photographs will become more powerful and expressive.

Is photography art?

Yes, it most definitely is - or should I say, it can be. But for a photographic composition to work artistically, to be powerful, to affect the emotions, it must have an underlying harmony. Without harmony, there is no art - no music, no picture, no poem. Harmony is the structure which holds our attention, which makes meaning possible and which allows us to communicate.

When we sense harmony as an underlying element in a picture it conveys a feeling of wholeness or perfection. Without harmony as an underlying principle, our experience of beauty would not happen.

Harmony in art is one reason why some works endure for centuries, beyond fashion and style. And when we create underlying harmony in a photograph, we have created an image that can truly be said to be art.

What is composition?

Photographic composition is a set of 'rules' which allows us, as artists and communicators, to create harmony within a framework and to say what we want to say. The 'rules', once learned, become subconscious and infuse and inform our work so that we no longer need to think about them consciously. By practising these rules, we can create images of our own choosing.

My new photography eBook, The Art of Photographic Composition, has been designed as a short course in photography, that will guide you on a step-by-step journey, to a mastery of the rules so that you can make your photographs say what you really want them to say.

This 65-page eBook course is divided up into 30 sections and each one comes with supporting photographs so that you can see how the ideas work in practice.

Creative assisgnments are suggested throughout the book, and most of the photographs are accompanied by technical data so you can try out similar settings for yourself.

Take one step at a time and build your knowledge into a body of work which you can be proud of. At the end of 30-days you will have a solid grounding in the principles and a series of photographs that will impress your friends and family .

The book is divided into 30 lessons. I have included camera data where I think it will be useful to you. However, not every image has data included since this book is not meant to be a technical manual but a guide to developing your ability to see in photographic terms and so the emphasis is always on compositional skills.

Each of the 30 lessons is self-contained but they do follow on, one from another. So one way to use this book is to take a whole day's shoot for one section. This could be done over a one-month period or more slowly, say over 15 weekends.

Or you can just jump around and pick an idea that appeals to you. The contents have hyperlinks so you can click on what interests you and go immediately to that page.

Take your time with each section, make lots of shots for each idea and really embed the concepts in your mind. At the end of 30 days you will have a strong grasp of composition and will find yourself making shots you never dreamt of, using a whole range of new skills!

Anyone with an SLR camera but also some compact cameras. It doesn't matter which kind of camera you have in order to learn the rules but you do need to have control over the aperture and shutter speed on your camera, which is possible on many compacts - check the manual first if you are in doubt.

Photographers who have mastered aperture, shutter-speed and so on but still feel there is something missing. Some photographers have a good grasp of the camera controls and know how to get a good exposure but want to learn more about the artistic side of photography. If this is you, then this book is exactly what you need.

Anyone who was told that photographic composition is not something you can learn, it's something you are born with, similar in the way that some people just seem to know 'magically' how to draw. The opposite is the truth. Drawing is a learned skill and so is composition. This book will guide you from first principles to a sound grasp of all the main compositional rules.

If Thomas Edison is right, and "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration", then the hard work has already been done for you and is presented in my eBook in easy-to-digest chunks that build, one by one, to a mastery of the art of photographic composition. Read the text, practise the Creative Ideas, and let the photographs inspire you. You can only imagine now what your photos will be like in 30 days time!

I bought my first SLR camera in 1970 - a Zenith B, made in Russia, and of course, it was a film camera. I had my own darkroom for many years before I happily embraced digital technology. So as you can see, I have been working in the field of photography for a very long time!

The ideas in this book have come from those years of experience as a photographic artist, and that's why they work because they are based on real life experience not theory. In fact, many of the techniques in the book cannot be found anywhere else as they come entirely from my own work.

You don't have to spend years and years learning about composition though! I've already done the hard work and my ideas in this book will shorten that learning curve to as little as 30 days.

I guarantee your shots will improve. I am so confident that you will be pleased with your purchase that I am offering a 30-day money back guarantee.

If you try out the ideas in the book and don't feel that your photos have improved, then contact me before the 30 days are up, and I will refund your money, no questions asked.

Buy now, download it immediately and get started today!

The Art of Photographic Composition
only $9.95

The eBook is in Adobe PDF file format. If your computer doesn't have the Adobe Reader software, you can easily install it for free. Please note that because of the number of color images in this publication, the file is quite large (over 9 MB) so if you have a slow connection it may take a little while to download.

The eBook version comes with a No-Questions-Asked Guarantee:  If you're not satisfied with this eBook, just email me within 30 days of the date of purchase - and I'll issue a 100% refund immediately.

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