Book: Basics of composition in photography

The idea of a photograph as a photographic picture will keep the photographer from hasty shooting random shots, mobilize his attention to creating constructively accurate pictures, direct him on the path of searching for artistic solutions and turn the mechanical process of shooting into a creative process.

Exposure is the finale of the creative process of shooting, which will find its final completion when processing the negative, printing, finishing the print. A lot has been done up to the moment of exposition. The main thing was the idea of the work, the theme was conceived, the plot was found. Then the shooting points and the nature of the light pattern are determined, the material is arranged in the frame window of the camera Finally, the decisive, perhaps the only moment (sometimes called the "moment of truth") is noticed and captured, in which the plot is revealed with extraordinary completeness and accuracy. In the event - this is its culmination, in the portrait - a characteristic facial expression, an expressive gesture. In the sports shot - accurately aught phase of movement, as if carved from a continuous action. In the landscape - a gust of wind that deflected a tree branch, or a solar glare that suddenly fell on the yellow leaves of autumn maples. Now you can press the shutter release button, but it is better, of course, when the photographer anticipates this light miracle, waits for it, being sure that it will happen!