The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos
83 Composition Tools from the Masters
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Marc Silber
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Number-One Amazon New Release
How to Compose Photos that Don't Suck
Easy to understand guide; get right down to what you need to instantly compose better photos.
Learn the secrets to composition: There's a common misconception that composition is mysterious and that only certain people have that natural gift for the techniques involved. The truth is that composition involves a set of skills that you can master. Just as you can use cookbook recipes to make your favorite meal - you don't have to be a famous French chef - you also can take amazing photos by just following a recipe!
Easy-to-follow photography composition recipes: Marc Silber has spent years studying the works of masters and interviewing some of the biggest names in photography. Now he can provide you with simple and easy-to-follow recipes for creating photographs that you and others will love! The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos puts at your fingertips ideas for improving your skills by giving you easy-to-follow "recipes" that will improve your photography right now! Take your photography to the next level: Composition is one of the biggest keys to creating photos that others will love. No matter what kind of camera or smartphone you're using, you can take your photography to the next level and beyond by learning composition tools and secrets known to the masters of the art.
Carry The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos with you on your phone: Use it when you're out photographing to get new ideas and inspiration. You'll be able to rapidly upgrade your photography game by learning the skills in Picture Perfect Processes.
Key benefits of owning The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos include:
- Taking better photographs today by learning the keys to composition
- Having quick and easy to follow "recipes" for composition at your fingertips
- Learning the secrets of composition from the masters of classical art and photography
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In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Physically difficult to listen to
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By: Barbara Tversky
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Tom and Jack
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- Narrated by: Wayne Thompson
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5 out of 5 stars
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I suggest you READ, not listen...
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By: Henry Adams
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In Pursuit of Elegance
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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I love elegance, but this book isn't elegant
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By: Matthew E. May
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The Oldest Enigma of Humanity
- By: Bertrand David, Jean-Jacques Lefrere
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Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? Scholars and archaeologists have for centuries pored over these works of art, speculating and hoping to come away with the key to the mystery. David and Lefrre give us a new understanding of an art lost in time, revealing what had until recently remained unexplainable - the oldest enigma in humanity has been solved.
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Amazing conclusion that will change your views
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By: Bertrand David, and others
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Known and Strange Things
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
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Storytelling with Data
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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A much-needed shout-out to good habits
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
"See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the scientific revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses and created paintings filled with realistic effects of light and shadow. The hub of this optical innovation was the small Dutch city of Delft.
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By: Laura Snyder
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Directing Actors
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story5 out of 5 stars 147
In this essential guide to acting, internationally renowned directing coach Judith Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, and what directors do wrong. She also goes over script analysis and preparation and how actors work, and she shares important and helpful insights into the director/actor relationship.
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Directing Humans
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,059
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 906
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Story4 out of 5 stars 908
With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pollan is the master of hipster porn
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
From young artists trying to elbow their way in to those working hard at dropping out, White's essential audiobook offers a once-in-a-generation glimpse of the inner workings of the American art world at a moment of unparalleled ambition, uncertainty, and creative exuberance.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciations Spoil This Reading!
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Memory Craft
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30
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5 out of 5 stars
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So grateful this is on Audible!
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Art Is Life
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art as few critics have.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WRONG for audio program
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Space Odyssey
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Story5 out of 5 stars 281
Regarded as a masterpiece today, 2001: A Space Odyssey received mixed reviews. Despite the success of Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick wasn't yet recognized as a great filmmaker, and 2001 was radically innovative, with little dialogue and no strong central character. Author Michael Benson explains how 2001 was made, telling the story primarily through the two people most responsible for the film, Kubrick and science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke. Benson interviewed Clarke many times, and has also spoken at length with Kubrick's widow, Christiane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book Wholly Equal to its Subject
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Foursome
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
New York, 1921: Acclaimed photographer Alfred Stieglitz celebrates the success of his latest exhibition - the centerpiece, a series of nude portraits of his soon-to-be wife, the young Georgia O'Keeffe. The exhibit acts as a turning point for the painter poised to make her entrance into the art scene. There, she meets Rebecca Salsbury, the fiancé of Stieglitz’s protégé, Paul Strand, marking the start of a bond between the couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A competent account of four interesting lives
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Leonardo's Brain
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 833
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Bestselling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy (yes), and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as Da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.
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3 out of 5 stars
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As distracted as Da Vinci
- By D. McCracken on 05-12-15
By: Leonard Shlain
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New way to see
Thank you! This has opened my eyes to a new way to see things. Each tool was described well and the examples were easy to see what you were saying. One of the best books on composition
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