Photographing the World Around You
by Freeman Patterson · Freeman Patterson
Patterson's visual design workshop treats photography as a way of seeing: line, shape, texture, perspective, and color, with exercises that train observation. Less about equipment than about recognizing why an arrangement of elements holds together.
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