Think Before You Shoot: The Art of Taking Creative Photographs

This book is a visual feast, an offering both for those who love fine art and those who recognize the thought behind its creation. It is, in addition, a book for photographers seeking to learn how to make your own photographs more artistic.

Noted photographer and educator Santino Zafarana demonstrates in this photographic art book that you have to know what you want to say before you take the shot. Emotion -- or feeling -- is what can bring a snapshot out of obscurity, making it invoke and unite the viewer with an image. Transcending emotions is the key to connecting the viewer to any photograph or artwork you shoot.

Santino presents an almost foolproof yet simple way to capture the beauty around us and to turn that beauty turn into artful, impressive photographs. If you learn to "Think Before You Shoot" and bring a fresh eye to your images, both you and others will be inspired by the result.

- A special section on techniques cover:
- Using the Right Depth Of Field
- Foreground vs. Background
- Basic Proportions/Rule of Thirds
- Controlling Motion
- Understanding Framing
- Frame Within a Frame or Looking Through Things
- Understanding Good Basic Lighting
- Shadows
- Reflections
- Point of View
- Be Aware of Your Background
- The Art of Silhouettes
- The Best Places to Crop For Portraits
- Texture
- Patterns and Repetition
- Still Life
- Portraits Using Window and Door Light
- Low Light or Night Photography
- Positive and Negative Space
- Panning
- Focus Point

Author: Santino Zafarana
Publisher: Goff Books
Published: 02/08/2022
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.40lbs
Size: 12.30h x 9.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781951541781

About the Author
Zafarana, Santino: - Santino was born in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily, Italy in 1954. He was introduced to photography by his uncle Salvatore Dolce, who gave him his first camera -- a Kodak brownie. Later he received a Rolleiflex for his 15th birthday. For more than forty-five years Santino Zafarana has simply photographed "the magic of light." He realized early in his photographic career that understanding how to control and capture the essence of light with his camera can make amazing photographs when it illuminates an object or a person. His artistic aspirations sent him on a quest to understand the quintessence and authenticity that led to a workflow and language that has allowed him to help thousands achieve their dreams of taking great artistic photographs. Santino's work moves smoothly and with great subtlety between abstraction and surrealism, constructivism and humanism.

Santino currently teaches and mentors at the Creative Photography Workshops school in Los Angeles, where he has taught at for more than eighteen years, and which he owns with his wife Tracey Landworth--an accomplished photographer in her own right.