> > Tomorrow I'm having my first photo class, > as a tutor :-) > I know. I'm raving mad, so you don't need to tell me that. > > We are a bunch who are starting a photo club, and somebody > got to do it :-) > Me and a friend has been working a lot creating a PowerPoint > presentation. > First lesson will be basic stuff, exposure and such. > > But next session will be about basic composition. That's a > lot tougher. > The good thing about it, is that I'll probably learn a lot. > > Anybody got some ideas where to look for inspiration? Except from the > obvious tip, to look at good pictures. >
Good luck. Some good books about composition and analysing pictures are, in no particular order: A primer of visual literacy, Dondis Photo Design, Mante Color Design, Mante The photograph: composition and colour design, Mante Learning to look at paintings, Acton Point and line to plane, Kandinsky Seeing is Believing, Berger Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design, Bowers How to Read a Photograph, Ian Jeffrey Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
