The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photographs
by Michael Freeman · Ilex Press
Freeman analyses composition and design in photographs: framing, balance, dynamic tension, and the graphic elements of an image. Readers learn to plan a frame deliberately rather than crop later, and to explain why a picture works.
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