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On those frosty mornings when I grab my camera and tripod, and head out into the meadow behind my house, I quickly forgot about me. Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good but Freeman Patterson has another better one, Jan 26 2004

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Michael Brochstein (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photography & the art of seeing (Paperback)

This is a good book on composition and related matters but Freeman Patterson has a much better one in "Photographing the World Around You: A Visual Design Workshop". Buy that one instead of this. This book would rate about a B, B+ or at best an A- whereas the other would be solidly in the "A" category. Freeman's text is clear and easy to understand and his photo's are fine but the other book is better in all ways IMHO.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Covers the art and emotion of photography, not the mechanics, Sep 16 2002

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tomh (Newton, MA United States) - See all my reviews

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I have been using cameras for a long time, so I mostly know how they work. But I was looking for guidance and inspiration on how to make my photos more emotionally compelling. This book really hit the sweet spot for me.

First, it discusses and describes important concepts of composition with what I thought were excellent examples, as well as beautiful photographs. While most other books talk about basics like the rule of thirds, leading lines, etc, Art of Seeing goes much further into compositional elements.

But as important is Mr Patterson's clear love of the medium and ability to convey how to see in many different ways. I have been practicing this summer, and am finding now that many more of my images are worth something -- many just helping me understand where I went wrong so I can continue to improve. This book helped me find the subjects that are hidden in many otherwise ordinary things.

My only criticism of the book is that on a personal level I am not as interested in highly asbstract subjects that are a large part of the images in the book, although I will say that there is one shot of trees from an airplane that had me entranced. But this kind of subject makes sense for a book focused on composition.

I really learned a lot from this book, and highly recommend it.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration, Jan 29 2003

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Take this book as an inspiration. It offers you new appraoches for the search of subjects and the way to cature them on film.
The book is relatively poor in instruction and something like "swirl your camera with an open shutter at its strap but be carefull that the strap is carefully fixed" can only be taken as an invitation to be more creative. And jumping up and down in a forrest with your camera's shutter open might also not be everybody's idea of innovative photography.
You need to like Freeman Patterson's photos in their simplicity to appreciate his explanations. I do, and I like the book as well!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Photography and the Art of Seeing
While I am still reading the book, so far I am very impressed. Clearly on of the best (of many) photography books I have read.

Published on Sep 21 2009 by D. Theriault

4.0 out of 5 stars Understand the goals here
Freeman Patterson's real deliverable in this and other of his books is to get you (the photographer) to look at what you are seeing differently. Read more

Published on Jan 1 2006 by D. R. Chevalier