دانلود کتاب Take Your Photography to the Next Level: From Inspiration to Image

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Elbow Canyon
Ice 1
1 Seeing
On Reading Photographs
1. Center of Interest
2. What is the Image About?
3. What is the Photograph About at a Deeper Level?
4. What are the Parts of the Image and How do they Relate?
5. Tonalities
6. Emotional Impact
7. Flaws
Reading My Photographs
What is the Photograph About?
What is the Photograph About at a Deeper Level?
What are the Parts of the Image and How Do They Relate?
Tonalities
Negative Space
Balance
Framing
Emotional Impact
Flaws
Is Beauty Essential to Great Photographs?
Elements of a Great Photograph
What Photographs Well?
Photographing Clichés
It’s Been Done Before
Noticing Subject Matter
Machinery
ADM Mill
2 Finding Images
Working the Scene—Part 1
Working the Scene—Part 2
The Poison of Preconceived Ideas
Finding Inspiration—Interest Comes First
Rules for Looking
Seeing Fatigue
There’s Nothing Here to Photograph
Where Should You Point the Camera?
Canyon 2
Rust Rings
3 Composing
Sketching to Make Photographs
Complicated doesn’t Cut It
Does an Image Need a Center of Interest?
How Close to Perfect is Needed?
Decisions and Compromises
Your Options
Where Should You Point the Camera?
Framing Your Images
The Art and Religion of Cropping
To Crop or Not to Crop, That is the Question
Formats and Aspect Ratios
What About Cropping Both Ways?
Back To Framing
Framing Assistants
What Edges Can Do For Your Images
Working on Edges
Corners and What To Do With Them
Example Images—Composing Corners and Edges
Cropping For Good
Summary
Center Street
Diagonal Sunbeam
4 Assessing Images
Initial Disappointment
Selecting Images for Presentation
More on Picking Our Best Work
Image Deficiencies
Top Ten Reasons Why Images Fail
Burned Stump
Tree Reflection
5 Mind Games
Stuck in a Rut
Dealing with Slumps
Twelve Ways to Challenge Yourself
Career, Family, and Photography
Dealing With Disappointment
Cognitive Therapy
Photographic Flops
Equipment Envy
How Good the Equipment?
Money
Statistics and the Odds of Success
On Negative Thinking
Looking for Perfection—The Price of Experimenting
Wet Shale
Windshield
6 Take Your Photography to the Next Level
Introduction
Part 1—Finding Your Level
Measuring Print Quality
Identifying Your Technical Level
Technical Level 1
Technical Level 2
Technical Level 3
Technical Level 4
Technical Level 5
Technical Level 6
Identifying Your Aesthetic Level
Aesthetic Level A
Aesthetic Level B
Aesthetic Level C
Aesthetic Level D
Aesthetic Level E
Aesthetic Level F
Aesthetic Level G
Finding Your Level
Part 2—Getting Help to Assess Your Level
Assessing Your Technical and Aesthetic Skills
Technical Levels
Aesthetic Levels
Self-Assessment
Getting Help
The Worst Kind of Feedback
Obtaining Feedback
But I don’t Know Anyone
How to Translate Feedback into Levels
Listening to Your Fellow Participants’ Critiques
The Virtual Workshop
Conclusion
Part 3—Moving On, Making Better Images
The Differences Between Levels
Technical Level 1 to 2
Technical Level 2 to 3
Technical Level 3 to 4
Technical Level 4 to 5
Technical Level 5
Aesthetic Skills
Aesthetic Level A
Aesthetic Level B
Aesthetic Level C
Aesthetic Level D
Aesthetic Level E
Aesthetic Level F
Windowpane
My Equipment and Techniques
Epilogue
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