ABSTRACT
The difference between seeing and looking is essential—much like the difference, in music, between hearing and listening. In Creative Visualization, master photographer, photo educator and photo instructor Rick Sammon presents his proven methodology for creative digital photography. His signature inspiring and motivating approach opens creative avenues for photographers in a variety of genres.
With easy-to-follow examples, Sammon shows you how simple changes—with visualization, composition, post-processing, and more—can mean the difference between a snapshot and a great shot. This book, illustrated with more than 300 of Rick’s photographs, includes invaluable information about exposure, composition, subject choice, lighting, mood, and depth.
In the Food for Thought section, Rick offers guidelines for setting goals, getting motivated, connecting with a subject, learning, painting with light, thinking like a painter and more. In Develop Your Creative Vision, Rick takes you on an exploration of composition, exposure, making images with impact, creating a mood, altering reality, and pursuing your passion. Corrective and creative image processing techniques, as well as HDR, EDR, panoramas and black-and-white imaging, are covered in the Image Processing Specialties section.
Rick also shares a chapter on self-assignments – photo challenges – that you can use to expand your photographic horizons.
- Canon Explorer of Light and master photographer Rick Sammon shares the secrets behind learning to see photographically, to make the necessary changes that will have a noticeable impact on your photographs
- Includes easy-to-follow instruction for post-processing techniques in Lightroom and Photoshop. Tips for making the best HDR and EDR images are also included, as well as illustrations of how plug-ins can help photographers awaken the artist within.
- Uses clear, visual examples of "photo failures" photographs side-by-side with successful ones, outlining the small, but important changes—to composition, framing, exposure, etc.—that can immediately make a significant difference
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|103 pages
Food For Thought
chapter 1|7 pages
The Four Levels of Learning
chapter 2|6 pages
Learning Bird by Bird
chapter 3|5 pages
Accidental Inventions and the Space–Time Continuum
chapter 4|15 pages
Photographing What We Recognize
chapter 5|6 pages
Connecting with a Subject
chapter 6|9 pages
Looking vs. Seeing
chapter 7|6 pages
Setting Goals
chapter 8|6 pages
How Come I Am Not Getting the Shots?
chapter 9|15 pages
Think Like a Painter, Photograph and Process Like an Artist
chapter 10|8 pages
Painting Artistically with Light
chapter 11|10 pages
Photography and the Death of Reality
chapter 12|9 pages
Get Motived and Stay Inspired
part II|83 pages
Basic Image Adjustments
chapter 13|14 pages
Seeing the Light
chapter 14|7 pages
Thoughts on the Histogram – Your In-Camera Light Meter
chapter 15|13 pages
Creative Composition
chapter 16|10 pages
Separation – Making Order Out of Chaos
chapter 17|18 pages
Making Images That Have Impact
chapter 18|20 pages
Pursue Your Passion
part III|6 pages
Corrective Image Processing
chapter 19|5 pages
Corrective and Creative Image Adjustments
part IV|63 pages
Image Processing Specialties