Product Description

Foreword by Skip Cohen

Translating the chaos of the real world into a breathtakingly simple beautiful photograph can often seem like an impossible task. With busy cluttered backgrounds and subjects who dont know how to pose how can you take control and get a great shot no matter the situation? In Picture Perfect Practice photographer Roberto Valenzuela breaks down the craft of photography into three key elementslocations poses and executionthat you can use to unlock the photographic opportunities lying beneath every challenging situation.

Valenzuela stresses the need for photographers to actively practice their craft every dayjust like you would practice a musical instrumentin order to master the art of making great images. With chapters that offer practice exercises to strengthen your photographic abilities youll learn how to approach a scene break it down and see your way to a great photograph. The Location section features chapters that cover symmetry balance framing color elements textures and much more. The Posing section includes the Five Key Posing Techniques that Valenzuela uses every time he??s shooting people?? as well as a complete list of poses and how to achieve?? customize?? and perfect them. The Execution portion?? with sections like ??Lighting through Direction?? and ??Simplicity through Subtracti