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The Book
“This is not your usual ‘how to be a better photographer’ book. It takes you into deeper water. It requires investigation and commitment to areas new to you. Among other things, you will think about perception in new ways. If you read this book with care, and without skepticism, it will radically expand your thinking, seeing, and photography.”
—Jay Maisel, photographer
and author of Light on America
Comments
What I see:
My eye is drawn immediately to the leaf and then the lines of the waves which leads me to the shore and then back to the leaf. I then begin to notice the subtle shades of gray in the water and contrast that to the colors of the shore.
My thoughts:
With the leaf vertically dividing the image in half, for the first few minutes I spend wandering bottom part of the image. It takes a concerted effort to look above the leaf. And when I do I see the contrast of stillness versus the busyness of the lines below. When I crop the image to limit the image above the leaf, I feel the image is more complete. The image above the leaf is really unnecessary. Without it, I think the image is much stronger compositionally and complete.