Review of "Photo Impressionism the the Subjective Image"

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	• Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image (Freeman Patterson Photography) Freeman Patterson, Andre Gallant Key Porter Books, 2005 - 168 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Photography outside the box

What this book is at its heart, is a series of short essays on how to do art photography. It teaches you how to think outside the box in terms of how you compose a shot and what techniques you might use in setting exposure. Each essay or chapter include several photographic examples and you would be amazed at the photos the author makes using nothing but tin foil as a subject. This book teaches you that a photography can convey a scene or convey a mood or emotion and the techniques that you used to switch between them can be very different.

widen your horizons

Yes, photography is a real art medium and you can take it beyond literal representation and make it more expressive! Make your photography convey how a subject makes you feel rather than what that subject literally is. Andre and Freeman are excellent instructors and this book is wonderful and inspiring. Several different techniques in subjective imagery are presented, including multiple-exposure impressionistic images (with different camera movement techniques for different effects) and the aptly named dreamscapes using photo-montage. The explanations are good, and the techniques are not difficult, although they take practice to master. Don't be discouraged at first, keep experimenting!

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Review of "Photo Impressionism the the Subjective Image"

Although in this review the book's author is listed as Freeman Patterson, Andre Gallant was a co-author. Together they produced a masterpiece in this book. It is clearly written, expressively creative, and visually attractive and informative.

Gorgeous Book with Great Projects

The photos are fantastic and very inspirational. It's well laid out and easy to follow the theory. I'll be buying more of Patterson's books.

review of photo impressionism

You may or may not like many of the photos included in this book. That is irrelevant. The authors are trying to engage the "artist" within you, to encourage you to view the world not in its stark realism, but in an emotional way. The authors ask that you look at each scene you wish to photograph, and determine what emotions it evokes. Then, decide what technique can be employed to capture and convey that emotion. Sometimes this results in an abstract photo where the underlying subject is hardly discernable. Other times, the subject is very identifiable, but chosen, positioned (interms of composition) to recall memories, feelings, senses. I wish that the authors had provided more technical details for many of the photos (which lenses, f-stops, etc.), perhaps as a footnote, even at the risk of detracting from the overall message of "art" rather than photography. This book is entirely about film photography, and translationn of some of the authors' techniques to the digital world is not always straight-forward. Certainly, any such translation would require Photoshop, and a rather sophisticated understanding of layers, masks, opacity, etc.

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In Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image the authors show how photographs can be used to alter physical reality to express the photographer's personal response to specific subject matter. The "impressionist" photographer deliberately abandons physical exactitude to convey the reality of feelings more effectively.

This book explains how to venture into the non-literal world of photography to create and record impressions that express emotion, feelings and spirit.

The first part of the book includes instructional topics such as: Multiple exposures Montages Subtle and vibrant colors Selective focus, exposure and speed Creative image transfer techniques Trends and film choices.

The second part is a gallery of photographs taken around the world with extensive captions that explain the authors' personal approaches to photography.

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