P3D RE: Re: What did I learn last night- Seeing Creatively

["Greg Tank" <tanker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory A.Tank     "tanker@xxxxxxxxxxxx"

David Lee email
>I nevertheless tend to fall into the anti-"rules of composition" camp. I
>believe that most photographic situations are simply too complex to lend
>themselves to any such rules.

>"...so called "composition" becomes a personal thing to be developed
>along with technique as a personal way of seeing. So composition cannot be
>taught.

Composition verses Seeing Creatively - the difference can be drawn from the
above quote. Seeing creatively is a craft that can be learned. Applying what
that craft to the art of photography will be our own personal challenge. So
I tend to agree with the statement that composition cannot be taught, but I
believe that techniques of seeing creatively are within everyone's capacity.

I would like to highly recommend the following resource. It is a multimedia
CD (get it with the book). It is called "Learning To See Creatively" by
Brian Peterson and is one of his CD's in a series called Better Photography.
It is published by DIAMAR. I picked mine up through one of the computer
software catalogs I get.

It is no substitute for a great teacher but it is close.

tanker