The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos |  | Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Focal Press
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Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,474
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
ASIN: B002BL3HWY
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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 Not for use on a Kindle 2 - Color graphics on PC July 3, 2010
G. Eberlein
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
KINDLE REVIEW: The writing style is somewhat drawn-out, but OK once you get use to his style. However the graphic elements are dreadful on a Kindle 2. I was ready to see if I could return it, until I viewed in on Kindle for PC. It turns out the graphics are in COLOR and of reasonable quality. Much is lost with the Kindle grayscale conversion.
I'll keep the e-book, but only view it on a PC. The Kindle DX may display better.
 Great book, poor Kindle quality on iPad June 26, 2010
Fairy Godmother (PA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Anyone who's into photography knows how important it is to be able to see a good quality of the image that is being discussed. The Kindle edition of this book robbed me from that particular side of the learning process: most of the pictures are such poor quality, I have hard time making sence of them.
Someone might tell me, "That's what samples are for". Yes, I did get the sample first but thought, "Well, it's a sample; the real thing will have proper picture quality". Wrong!
Great disappointment, Kindle team.
 Best book on photo composition, PERIOD June 20, 2010
Joseph A. Nowak (Northern California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been a professional photographer for 40 years and even though I graduated from photography school and still have my books, I have purchased literally hundreds of books on photography since 1970... yet I have NEVER seen a book on artistic composition that even pretends to approach this fine book! Okay, you already know about the Rule of Thirds, using leading lines, using color, framing, etc. to draw attention to your subject. This book goes far FAR beyond the aforementioned basic "laws" of art and photography!! This book EXPANDS on them!... like the Big Bang Theory of Photography. What truly amazes me is that the photographs extend the text in the book a hundred times! Do you want to truly get into the mind of an absolute Master of Photography? Want to know the thought processes he goes through before clicking the shutter? My only complaint is that the book isn't ten times as big! That doesn't mean his coverage is inadequate... far from it!
In case you are relatively new to photography, please don't interpret the above to mean that this book is only for extremely advanced amateurs or top notch professionals, you are WRONG. What separates this book from the "chaff" is that he DOES explain why he does what he does! :) Photographers at every level of photography will find this book hard to put down! I DO recommend though that you become intimately familiar with operating your camera first!... and that you understand the very basic concepts of photography. Someone who just picked up a camera today for the first time will learn something, but might be frustrated in understanding some of the concepts brought up in this book.
You will look at the images in this book first! No doubt about it! You will say to yourself, "I wish I could take photographs like these". Read the book word for word and learn!
My highest rating, 10 stars!
 Good info but June 18, 2010
Timothy Tiller (Omaha Nebraska)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book offers some good detailed information on the subject, and I believe the author is competent in his field, but the teaching style is overly abstract, with a confusing material flow, plus there are some opaque statements that need re-wording. Also, the print is just too small to read and relax with.
Beyond Visual Recording June 8, 2010
Richard Berns (Chicago, Illinois United States)
I have no background in the field of Art, but I want to advance myself in the art of photography. I'm a developing photographer with a past life as an electrical engineer, and I'm striving to get beyond just the technical aspect of making quality visual recordings of the world around me.
This book was a real eye opener for me. The author offers his experience in photography along with an unusual mix of rigorous theory. He helped me realize how the human minds sees, not just how the camera and lens can capture a clear image of objects. The book deals with the psychology of the human mind as it relates to visual impact and how to get beyond producing mundane images.
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