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Title: Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson ISBN: 1-55013-099-4 Publisher: Key Porter Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (13 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty Good but Freeman Patterson has another better one
Comment: This is a good book on composition and related matters but Freeman Patterson has a much better one in "Photographing the World Around You: A Visual Design Workshop". Buy that one instead of this. This book would rate about a B, B+ or at best an A- whereas the other would be solidly in the "A" category. Freeman's text is clear and easy to understand and his photo's are fine but the other book is better in all ways IMHO.

Rating: 1
Summary: Not a good book - buy something else.
Comment: Of all the photography books I own, this easily rates as
the worst. It seems more concerned with the author and his
interpretations of images than it does teaching/demonstrating
ways to improve your work. "You may have a different
emotional response to brown than I have". Too damn right I do.
Maybe the author is a good photographer in his own right, but
it comes across very poorly here.

Overall the photos are pretty uninspiring, dull sombre colours,
abstract subjects that are hard on the eye, uninteresting compositions ... and so it goes on.

It's all oppinions I suppose in photography, but I suggest
your hard earned cash is better spent elsewhere.
"Photographic Composition" by Grill & friends is how it
should be done, or try "Composition Techniques" by Ernst Wildi.

Regards,

Adrian

Rating: 3
Summary: Inspiration
Comment: Take this book as an inspiration. It offers you new appraoches for the search of subjects and the way to cature them on film.
The book is relatively poor in instruction and something like "swirl your camera with an open shutter at its strap but be carefull that the strap is carefully fixed" can only be taken as an invitation to be more creative. And jumping up and down in a forrest with your camera's shutter open might also not be everybody's idea of innovative photography.
You need to like Freeman Patterson's photos in their simplicity to appreciate his explanations. I do, and I like the book as well!

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