These are the lessons I wish I'd learned
when I was starting out, because some of them took way too long by just
learning ad hoc. I spent too many years focused on the wrong thing, and
in some cases, too many years not focused at all. What I know now is
that reading books alone doesn't make us better photographers, making
photographs does that.
The Visual Toolbox is packed with lessons about the tools of
the photographic language - the camera, the lens, and the more important
stuff like visual language, composition, and learning to see. Most of
those lessons are accompanied with real-life, honest-to-God assignments
to get you out there learning how to make stronger photographs, not just
learning to use a camera.
The Visual Toolbox is 201 pages long: a big, gorgeous, PDF
eBook, filled from front to back with the stuff I believe will make you
more comfortable with the tools of your craft and more fluent with the
language of this art. It'll take you past images that are sharp and
well-exposed, to photographs that are alive and say something.
Lessons include topics like isolation, scale, balance and tension,
abstraction and expressionism, seeing light, understanding visual mass
and energy, using negative space, using your lenses more expressively,
exploring the effects of perspective on your image, and so much more.
Then it's your turn and if you're looking for practical hands-on ideas
to really solidify this stuff, those are there too.
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