The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos

Simply the best resource design and composition for those of us who did not attend design classes in College. Or for those who didn't major in design, it lays out the concepts and makes a valiant attempt at explaining what makes great photographs. From this, we are extrapolate the skills needed to take great compositional shots. Draws heavily on Bauhaus design concepts.

If you're trying to learn how to "see" better photographic opportunities, this book will certainly inspire you. While there could be more technical instructions included, the author does a great job of outlining the things that you should be looking for in your composition. In fact, the only reason this book didn't get the fifth star is because of the lack of more instructions on how to actually practice getting some of the results featured in the book. Nonetheless, this is a good companion book to something like "Understanding Exposure."

Pocos libros abarcan tanto en el tema de composición, y dejan el aspecto de la libertad como parte esencial del libro..
Recomiendo su compra, leerlo y aplicarlo paso a paso..
Suerte :)

I am fed up with beginners guides about photohraphy that says pretty much the same you can read on any free photo-tutorial on the net. I am fed up with standardized discussions about how the exposure is calculated by the shutter-aperture-iso trinity. I want to learn about photography, not how to handle hardware. So I put my hope into this book, and I am not disapointed.

For me who has not read any artschool pretty mush all was new or rather new to me, about composition and how an image is built up graphicaly. I guess if you have taken classes in traditional art (painting etc) this might be a bit basic but not to me.

Therefore: a great book!

As a DSLR and photography newbie, I absolutely loved this book. This book gives one a solid foundation on "what works and why in composition" - something one can build on depending on style/artistic preferences. I will be reading this book again and again.

I only wish the author provided detailed information on each shot - lens used, camera settings, overall how the shot was achieved from purely technical perspective for us, newbies.