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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 572170" data-attributes="member: 13196">Have you ever looked at Picture Perfect Practice by Roberto Valenzuela? It teaches excellent concepts for composition but uses wedding photos as the illustrations. The real learning comes from taking the concepts and applying them to your own subjects. A few Amazon reviewers didn't give it high scores simply because it used wedding photos. Some people just like to go out and try to replicate the same photo they see. The problem with doing that is a person is simply learning by rote. With this book, you take the concepts and apply them to your own style of photography. And by doing so, you wind up owning the concepts that are taught rather than just going out and replicating a photo that someone else took (rote). I have a teaching degree (music) and had to learn how to teach. This book is FANTASTIC and will say it is the best book I've come across that teaches the basics of composition. And at the end of each chapter, there are assignments where you take your own photos using the concepts that are taught. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321803531/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321803531/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="hark, post: 572170, member: 13196"] Have you ever looked at [I]Picture Perfect Practice[/I] by Roberto Valenzuela? It teaches excellent concepts for composition but uses wedding photos as the illustrations. [B]The real learning comes from taking the concepts and applying them to your own subjects.[/B] A few Amazon reviewers didn't give it high scores simply because it used wedding photos. Some people just like to go out and try to replicate the same photo they see. The problem with doing that is a person is simply learning by rote. With this book, you take the concepts and apply them to your own style of photography. And by doing so, you wind up owning the concepts that are taught rather than just going out and replicating a photo that someone else took (rote). I have a teaching degree (music) and had to learn [I][B]how[/B][/I] to teach. This book is FANTASTIC and will say it is the best book I've come across that teaches the basics of composition. And at the end of each chapter, there are assignments where you take your own photos using the concepts that are taught. [URL]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321803531/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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