The Photographer's Vision Remastered (The Photographer's Eye Book 3)

Amazon.com Exclusive: "What Makes a Good Photograph," an Excerpt from Photographer's Vision Takes directly from real life Although the camera can be used to construct images, particularly in studio work, the great strength of photography is that the physical world around us provides the material. This elevates the importance of the subject, the event; and the reporting of this is obviously something at which photography excels. At the same time, however, this ease of capture reduces the value of accurate representation, because it has become commonplace--very different from the early view of painting, when Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his notebook that "painting is most praiseworthy which is most like the thing represented." Instead, the way in which photographers document--the style and treatment--becomes more significant.At a deeper level, there is an inherent paradox between depicting