The Creative Image
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About this ebook
Sometimes as photographers it's difficult to find inspiration and ideas. So I put this short eBook together and came up with ten projects to spark your imagination. There's nothing technical here; just some good advice and beautiful images that should encourage you to go out and try some new things.
Andrew S Gibson
I'm a freelance writer, technical editor and fine art photographer. I write for photography magazines such as EOS magazine, a quarterly magazine for EOS camera users published in the UK and I edit forthcoming photography books for book publishers. I also write photography eBooks for Craft & Vision and articles for Photo Tuts+ and Peachpit websites.
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The Creative Image - Andrew S Gibson
Introduction
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
– Ansel Adams
Largely thanks to digital cameras, photography has experienced a resurgence in popularity over the last decade or so. Back in the film era, only ‘serious’ photographers were able to produce their own prints, normally in black and white. It wasn’t easy – you had to set up your own chemical darkroom, which took time, money and space. You had to be pretty sure you were going to make use of it to undertake the effort. Now, anybody with a good camera and a printer has the same opportunity.
The digital era has brought other advantages. You can go online and look at the work of the world’s best photographers. Some of them also teach what they know about photography by writing articles, blogs and eBooks. Photography is still as challenging as ever to master. The basic building blocks of any good photograph – composition, quality of light and treatment of subject – are still the same. Digital