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What is Dynamic Symmetry?
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The Art of Composition
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5 Myths About Composition (Video)
5 Myths About Dynamic Symmetry
5 Simply Awesome Free Downloads
7 Products for Photographers That Aren't Worth the Time or Money
10 Points on Dynamic Symmetry
11 Reasons Why Dynamic Symmetry Might Never Become Popular With Photographers
15 Facts About Dynamic Symmetry and Composition in Art
15 Myths About Composition in Art and Photography
About This Website
A Closer Look at the Rule of Thirds
Adding the Human Element to Your Landscape Photographs
Aerial Perspective
A Landscape Oil Painting Designed Using Dynamic Symmetry by Dot Bunn
A Master's Ideology on Camera Grids and Composition
Arabesque
Are Camera Design Grids Necessary for Photography?
Armature of the Rectangle (Video)
A Simple Application of Dynamic Symmetry (Examples)
Aspective View
Balance by Isolation
Balance in Composition
Breathing Room
Bringing the 1.5 Rectangle Into the Golden Section System of Design
Camera Grids for the Beginner
Circular Composition
Classical Balance
Coincidences
Composite Photography vs. Straight Photography
Creating the Root Rectangles Within a Square
Determining Grid Structure
Determining Proportion
Dutch Angle
Echoing
Edge Distractions
Edge Elements That Work
Ellipses
Enclosures
Entrance Into a Composition
Exiting out of a Composition
Figure-Ground Relationship
Framing Within a Frame
Gamut
Gamut in Composition (Video)
Gazing Direction
Greatest Area of Contrast
Greatest Area of Contrast (Video)
Henri Cartier-Bresson and the 1.5 Rectangle
Henri Cartier-Bresson (Etching the Dynamic Symmetry Grid)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - Setting the Scene
Hierarchy
Horizontal vs. Vertical
How Many Photographs to Take of a Scene
How to Create a Design That Has Theme, Variation, and Harmony for Any Size Rectangle
How to Create a Root Phi Rectangle
Juxtaposition
Learning How to Analyze Drawings, Paintings, and Photographs
Michel Jacobs on Portrait Painting Using Dynamic Symmetry
My Process for Photographing
My Thoughts on Creativity and Camera Grids for the Professional Photographer
Negative Shapes
Notional Space
Overlapping
Photograph Kids Being Kids
Placing One Eye Center
Pointing Devices
Points of Interest in a Design Grid
Practicing Dynamic Symmetry Techniques at Museums
Rabatment in Composition
Radiating Lines
Separating Elements
Simultaneous Contrast
Steelyard Principle
Subdivision of Root Rectangles
The 14 Line Armature and the Rule of Thirds Grid
The 14 Line Armature (Video)
The Art of Composition (Introduction)
The Baroque, Sinister, and Reciprocal Diagonal Lines
The Charles Bouleau Armature vs. The Root Rectangle Armature
The Decisive Moment - by Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Golden Section and the Phi Ratio (1.618)
The Importance of a Thumbnail Image
The Importance of the Armature of the Rectangle
The Painter's Secret Geometry
The Phi Rectangle (1.618) vs. The 1.5 Rectangle
The Problem With the Rule of Odds
The Root 2 Dynamic Symmetry Rectangle vs. The 1.5 Rectangle
The Use of Straight Lines
The Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Line
Two Methods of Design
Using Dynamic Symmetry to Crop Photographs
Vertical and Horizontal Balance
What is Artistic Style?
What Is Classical Skill-Based Design?
Why Compose?
Why Design Grids Are Important for Learning Composition
Why the Background is Just as Important as the Subject
90 Degree Angles
Design for Photographers
FAQs
Dynamic Symmetry Grids
Recommendations
Artists
>
Christopher Anderson
Keliy Anderson-Staley
Michael John Angel
George Angelini
Denise Antaya
Juliette Aristides
Eric Armusik
Eve Arnold
Anna-Brith Arnsten
Olivia Arthur
Steven Assael
Igor V. Babailov
Anna Rose Bain
Garin Baker
Allan R. Banks
Micha Bar-Am
Bruno Barbey
Colleen Barry
Elizabeth Beard
Alan Merris Bell
Julie Bell
Jonas Bendiksen
Ian Berry
Gulay Berryman
Werner Bischof
Kirsten Leah Bitzer
Matt Black
Sarah Blesener
David Michael Bowers
Roger Dale Brown
Paul S. Brown
Mary Ross Buchholz
Kristie Bruzenak
Nadir Bucan
Dot Bunn
Scott Burdick
René Burri
John Buxton
Antoine Bruy
Svetlana Cameron
Dario Campanile
Enri Canaj
Cornell Capa
Robert Capa
Louis Carr
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Chien-Chi Chang
Turjoy Chowdhury
Jacob Collins
Mary Jane Q Cross
David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz
Antoine d'Agata
Carla D'aguanno
Marcos Damascena
Bruce Davidson
Carl De Keyzer
Jon deMartin
Raymond Depardon
Bieke Depoorter
Stephanie Deshpande
Patrick Devonas
Paul P D'Haese
Marina Dieul
Shaun Downey
Carolyn Drake
Thomas Dworzak
Nikos Economopoulos
Virgil Elliott
Megan K. Euell
Philippe Faraut
Louise Feneley
Faripour Forouhar
Martine Franck
Stuart Franklin
Leonard Freed
Thomas Freteur
Joke Frima
Paul Fusco
Tina Garrett
Gilberto Geraldo
Daniel Gerhartz
Bruce Gilden
Max Ginsberg
Stephen Gjertson
Burt Glinn
Jim Goldberg
Arina Gordienko
Adrian Gottlieb
David Gray
Daniel Graves
Daniel E. Greene
Philip Jones Griffiths
Harry Gruyaert
Jean Guamy
James Gurney
Clark Gussin
Mandy Hallenius
Philippe Halsman
Gordon Hanley
David Hardy
Price Harrison
George Hartley
Christine Hartman
Erich Hartmann
David Alan Harvey
Seth Haverkamp
Jeff Hein
Tim Hetherington
Ron Hicks
Greg Hildebrandt
Thomas Hoepker
Sohrab Hura
David Hurn
Maureen Hyde
Jason Patrick Jenkins
Richard Kalvar
Svetlana Kanyo
Thomas Kegler
Michael Vince Kim
Michael Klein
Josef Koudelka
Wang Kun
Alain Laboile
Sarah Lamb
Joshua LaRock
Bryan Larsen
Urban Larsson
Herman Leonard
Robert Liberace
He Lihuai
Edward Little
Jeremy Lipking
Vivian Maier
Sally Mann
Constantine Manos
Diana Markosian
Steve McCurry
Sydney McGinley
Sherrie McGraw
Susan Meiselas
Terje Adler Mork
Karen Offutt
Graydon Parrish
Christopher Parrott
Leszek Piotrowski
Denise Pollack
Aleksi Poutanen
Christopher Pugliese
Julio Reyes
Lissa Rivera
Cristina García Rodero
Sergio Roffo
Cesar Santos
David Saxe
Nelson Shanks
Jordan Sokol
Viktoria Sorochinski
Paweł Starzec
Victoria Steel
Adrienne Stein
Gwendolyn Stine
Dennis Stock
Vicki Sullivan
Carol Lee Thompson
Dan Thompson
Larry Towell
Hsin-Yao Tseng
Boris Vallejo
James Van Fossan
Jeffrey R. Watts
Patricia Watwood
Alex Webb
Morgan Weistling
Shane Wolf
Anna Wypych
Robert Zeller
Kailin Zhao
Doug Zider
Books
>
Classical Drawing Atelier - Introduction
Classical Painting Atelier - Introduction
Colour Control
Geometry of Design - Introduction
Lessons in Classical Drawing - Introduction
Lessons in Classical Painting - Introduction
Perspective Made Easy
Pictorial Composition: An Introduction
Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications
The Art of Photography
The Camera
The Classic Point of View
The Classic Point of View (Free Copy)
The Essence of Photography: Seeing and Creativity
The Painter's Secret Geometry - Introduction
The Print
The Negative
Other Recommended Books
>
Limelight
The Modern Century - Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
Websites
>
Art Renewal Center
Da Vinci Initiative
LensCulture
Magnum Photos
PragerU
The Golden Divider for the Arts
Videos
Articles and Videos
3 Reasons Why Most Photography Workshops Aren't Worth the Money
5 Approaches to Composition in Photography (And Why They Won't Teach You Anything About Design)
5 Books Every Photographer Should Have (Video)
5 Tips For Surviving a Photography Portfolio Review
An Email Addressing the Practical Use of Dynamic Symmetry in Art
Art Can't Be Taught?
Art Speak
Artist Robert Florczak: Classical Ideals Give Culture Depth
Camera Gear - Why I Shoot With a Leica
Camera Grids - Not a Tool for the Skilled Photographer
Composition 101: Starting With the Basics
Composition Can't Be Taught?
Composition Should Always Come First
Consistency, Persistence, and Talent
Dynamic Symmetry and Wildlife
Dynamic Symmetry for Photographers
Dynamic Symmetry and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Everyone's a Photographer
Feeling and Genius in Modern Art
Film vs. Digital
Great Compositions: Alfred Eisenstaedt
If Myron Barnstone Can't Do It, Why Do You Think You Can?
Intuition in Composition (Master Artists)
Intuitive Knowledge in Composition (Master Photographers)
Intuition in Composition: A Topic I Will Never Debate
Is Photography Art?
It's No Longer About Sales
Kenyon Cox on Modern Art and Composition
Learning the Rules of Composition and Then Breaking Them
Marketing vs. Real World Experience
Michel Jacobs on Rules and Laws in Composition
Misunderstanding the Decisive Moment
My Experience With Myron Barnstone
Practice Doesn't Always Guarantee Success
The Art of Seeing and Visual Literacy
The Art of Selection
The Atelier Approach to Art Education
The Armature of the Rectangle
The Da Vinci Initiative
The Difference Between a Fine Art Print and a Work of Art
The Gap Between Photography and Art
The Number One Reason Why a Work of Art Will Fail
The Place of Photography in Fine Art
What Are the Benefits of Atelier Training?
Why I Let Others Advertise for Me
Why Is Modern Art So Bad? (Video)
Why I Wrote a User's Guide for Artists and Photographers
Why Your Feelings Don't Matter
Art Highlights
Products
Leica Camera Mug
Contact
Classical Painting Atelier
by Juliette Aristides
Introduction
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining, and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.
Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.
Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.
Human life is not made up of neutral moments simply waiting to be interpreted or transformed into art. Rather, each moment is a slice or microcosm of the worldview of the artist. The larger context of an individual's life, beliefs, environment, temperament, and upbringing form the base from which he approaches every encounter and formulates every artistic expression. These world views, moreover, are not just private beliefs: they are inherently tied to the beliefs of the greater or larger culture. Like fractal geometry, the smaller shapes are unavoidably imprinted with the shape of the whole.
In previous eras, artistic production was colored by the subtext that human beings, as children of God, have divine origins and that our existence is not transitory but eternal. This belief provided not only hope for the future, but a deep assurance of the intrinsic significance and value of human life. Artists reflected this vision of reality in their artwork, which enabled them to glimpse beauty in the face of tragedy and to portray monumental views of human life. This is why Sandro Botticelli could paint his ethereal goddesses, revealing a reality only hinted at in the world as the black plague ravaged Europe.
The postmodern skeptic, faced with an unflinchingly pragmatic and scientific worldview, has no hope of an eternal future. Humanity, crawling out of the primordial soup, living briefly, and returning to the mud, wrestles with a cosmic insignificance that is reflected in the art of our time. Beautiful figure paintings look hopelessly naïve and outmoded in many art circles precisely because they no longer represent the predominating beliefs of the artistic and intellectual elite-the end of man is not glory but dust. Thus the art of the modern epoch has been largely nonrepresentational, characterized by the marred, earthbound, fragmented view of the human being. Beauty, eternity, and truth seem to have faded into a bygone era.
While people share much with other living creatures, the desire for beauty, the capacity for self-reflection, and the longing for eternity are distinctively human qualities. On some subconscious level, we need beauty, despite its perceived lack of function. If we were to give a horse a diamond ring, it assesses it only on the basis of its utility, essentially asking the question, 'Can I eat it?' In contrast, the human being has the elevated option to ask not only 'Is it useful?' but 'Is it beautiful?' The enormity of human suffering in the world does not render this question, or the desire to ask it, trivial. Rather, it affirms an appreciation of aesthetics as fundamental to our nature.
Artists help us see the surprising beauty that breaks into our daily lives by celebrating that which might otherwise pass by unnoticed. Artists are in a unique position to leave an intimate record of human life, as they give us the opportunity to see not only through their eyes but also through their thoughts and emotions. One could say that the greater the art, the more clearly we experience this communication of souls. Artists remind us that despite the pain and ugliness in the world, something deeper exists-a beauty that peeks through the drudgery of life, whispering that there is more just beneath the surface. We see a landscape filled with longing and loss or a figure filled with love and empathy. These images enable us to long and love with the creators.
Nature shows us one kind of beauty, such as the way the light falls through the tree canopy, speckling the forest floor where I now sit and write. Occasionally, an unusually insightful individual is able to capture this kind of beauty in art. This is why Mozart's Requiem Mass still moves people to tears in packed orchestra halls or why people are willing to wait in line for hours to see an exhibition of works by Vermeer. Despite all appearances and talk to the contrary, we crave art that captures truth and remains powerfully and beautifully relevant long past the time of its creation. This sort of art is not just pretty or made up of the hollow aesthetic beauty that changes with the eye of the beholder. It is not sentimental, for sentiment is fleeting. The sort of art that lives eternally is that which captures astonishing, spine-chilling, breathtaking beauty that heightens our senses and floods us with transforming thought and emotion. In this work, we hear a whisper from another world saying, "It's all real." The ache to last means you were meant to last; the longing for beauty calls to you because beauty marks a reality that actually exists.
The contemporary artist in this book lived parallel to the rages of modern and postmodern art; they saw the same grimy buses pass by, the same soggy newspapers and cigarette butts in the gutter, the same horrors on the news, but they saw in these things an alternate reality of meaning- one that they communicate in their work. The topics they choose to express are not always comfortable to look at, but, through the artist's vision, they are infused with pity, compassion, and insight that express a kind of beauty that transcends even the thorniest subject matter. The art portrayed in this book shows the courageous path followed by visionaries who are strangers in their own times, looking ahead to a land not yet found to capture a hope that, through beauty, can fight its way back into our world.
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Home
About/Gallery
What is Dynamic Symmetry?
Podcasts
The Art of Composition
Consultation Services
30 Minute Phone Consultation
60 Minute Phone Consultation
Workshop Certification
Tips and Techniques
5 Myths About Composition (Video)
5 Myths About Dynamic Symmetry
5 Simply Awesome Free Downloads
7 Products for Photographers That Aren't Worth the Time or Money
10 Points on Dynamic Symmetry
11 Reasons Why Dynamic Symmetry Might Never Become Popular With Photographers
15 Facts About Dynamic Symmetry and Composition in Art
15 Myths About Composition in Art and Photography
About This Website
A Closer Look at the Rule of Thirds
Adding the Human Element to Your Landscape Photographs
Aerial Perspective
A Landscape Oil Painting Designed Using Dynamic Symmetry by Dot Bunn
A Master's Ideology on Camera Grids and Composition
Arabesque
Are Camera Design Grids Necessary for Photography?
Armature of the Rectangle (Video)
A Simple Application of Dynamic Symmetry (Examples)
Aspective View
Balance by Isolation
Balance in Composition
Breathing Room
Bringing the 1.5 Rectangle Into the Golden Section System of Design
Camera Grids for the Beginner
Circular Composition
Classical Balance
Coincidences
Composite Photography vs. Straight Photography
Creating the Root Rectangles Within a Square
Determining Grid Structure
Determining Proportion
Dutch Angle
Echoing
Edge Distractions
Edge Elements That Work
Ellipses
Enclosures
Entrance Into a Composition
Exiting out of a Composition
Figure-Ground Relationship
Framing Within a Frame
Gamut
Gamut in Composition (Video)
Gazing Direction
Greatest Area of Contrast
Greatest Area of Contrast (Video)
Henri Cartier-Bresson and the 1.5 Rectangle
Henri Cartier-Bresson (Etching the Dynamic Symmetry Grid)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - Setting the Scene
Hierarchy
Horizontal vs. Vertical
How Many Photographs to Take of a Scene
How to Create a Design That Has Theme, Variation, and Harmony for Any Size Rectangle
How to Create a Root Phi Rectangle
Juxtaposition
Learning How to Analyze Drawings, Paintings, and Photographs
Michel Jacobs on Portrait Painting Using Dynamic Symmetry
My Process for Photographing
My Thoughts on Creativity and Camera Grids for the Professional Photographer
Negative Shapes
Notional Space
Overlapping
Photograph Kids Being Kids
Placing One Eye Center
Pointing Devices
Points of Interest in a Design Grid
Practicing Dynamic Symmetry Techniques at Museums
Rabatment in Composition
Radiating Lines
Separating Elements
Simultaneous Contrast
Steelyard Principle
Subdivision of Root Rectangles
The 14 Line Armature and the Rule of Thirds Grid
The 14 Line Armature (Video)
The Art of Composition (Introduction)
The Baroque, Sinister, and Reciprocal Diagonal Lines
The Charles Bouleau Armature vs. The Root Rectangle Armature
The Decisive Moment - by Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Golden Section and the Phi Ratio (1.618)
The Importance of a Thumbnail Image
The Importance of the Armature of the Rectangle
The Painter's Secret Geometry
The Phi Rectangle (1.618) vs. The 1.5 Rectangle
The Problem With the Rule of Odds
The Root 2 Dynamic Symmetry Rectangle vs. The 1.5 Rectangle
The Use of Straight Lines
The Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Line
Two Methods of Design
Using Dynamic Symmetry to Crop Photographs
Vertical and Horizontal Balance
What is Artistic Style?
What Is Classical Skill-Based Design?
Why Compose?
Why Design Grids Are Important for Learning Composition
Why the Background is Just as Important as the Subject
90 Degree Angles
Design for Photographers
FAQs
Dynamic Symmetry Grids
Recommendations
Artists
>
Christopher Anderson
Keliy Anderson-Staley
Michael John Angel
George Angelini
Denise Antaya
Juliette Aristides
Eric Armusik
Eve Arnold
Anna-Brith Arnsten
Olivia Arthur
Steven Assael
Igor V. Babailov
Anna Rose Bain
Garin Baker
Allan R. Banks
Micha Bar-Am
Bruno Barbey
Colleen Barry
Elizabeth Beard
Alan Merris Bell
Julie Bell
Jonas Bendiksen
Ian Berry
Gulay Berryman
Werner Bischof
Kirsten Leah Bitzer
Matt Black
Sarah Blesener
David Michael Bowers
Roger Dale Brown
Paul S. Brown
Mary Ross Buchholz
Kristie Bruzenak
Nadir Bucan
Dot Bunn
Scott Burdick
René Burri
John Buxton
Antoine Bruy
Svetlana Cameron
Dario Campanile
Enri Canaj
Cornell Capa
Robert Capa
Louis Carr
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Chien-Chi Chang
Turjoy Chowdhury
Jacob Collins
Mary Jane Q Cross
David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz
Antoine d'Agata
Carla D'aguanno
Marcos Damascena
Bruce Davidson
Carl De Keyzer
Jon deMartin
Raymond Depardon
Bieke Depoorter
Stephanie Deshpande
Patrick Devonas
Paul P D'Haese
Marina Dieul
Shaun Downey
Carolyn Drake
Thomas Dworzak
Nikos Economopoulos
Virgil Elliott
Megan K. Euell
Philippe Faraut
Louise Feneley
Faripour Forouhar
Martine Franck
Stuart Franklin
Leonard Freed
Thomas Freteur
Joke Frima
Paul Fusco
Tina Garrett
Gilberto Geraldo
Daniel Gerhartz
Bruce Gilden
Max Ginsberg
Stephen Gjertson
Burt Glinn
Jim Goldberg
Arina Gordienko
Adrian Gottlieb
David Gray
Daniel Graves
Daniel E. Greene
Philip Jones Griffiths
Harry Gruyaert
Jean Guamy
James Gurney
Clark Gussin
Mandy Hallenius
Philippe Halsman
Gordon Hanley
David Hardy
Price Harrison
George Hartley
Christine Hartman
Erich Hartmann
David Alan Harvey
Seth Haverkamp
Jeff Hein
Tim Hetherington
Ron Hicks
Greg Hildebrandt
Thomas Hoepker
Sohrab Hura
David Hurn
Maureen Hyde
Jason Patrick Jenkins
Richard Kalvar
Svetlana Kanyo
Thomas Kegler
Michael Vince Kim
Michael Klein
Josef Koudelka
Wang Kun
Alain Laboile
Sarah Lamb
Joshua LaRock
Bryan Larsen
Urban Larsson
Herman Leonard
Robert Liberace
He Lihuai
Edward Little
Jeremy Lipking
Vivian Maier
Sally Mann
Constantine Manos
Diana Markosian
Steve McCurry
Sydney McGinley
Sherrie McGraw
Susan Meiselas
Terje Adler Mork
Karen Offutt
Graydon Parrish
Christopher Parrott
Leszek Piotrowski
Denise Pollack
Aleksi Poutanen
Christopher Pugliese
Julio Reyes
Lissa Rivera
Cristina García Rodero
Sergio Roffo
Cesar Santos
David Saxe
Nelson Shanks
Jordan Sokol
Viktoria Sorochinski
Paweł Starzec
Victoria Steel
Adrienne Stein
Gwendolyn Stine
Dennis Stock
Vicki Sullivan
Carol Lee Thompson
Dan Thompson
Larry Towell
Hsin-Yao Tseng
Boris Vallejo
James Van Fossan
Jeffrey R. Watts
Patricia Watwood
Alex Webb
Morgan Weistling
Shane Wolf
Anna Wypych
Robert Zeller
Kailin Zhao
Doug Zider
Books
>
Classical Drawing Atelier - Introduction
Classical Painting Atelier - Introduction
Colour Control
Geometry of Design - Introduction
Lessons in Classical Drawing - Introduction
Lessons in Classical Painting - Introduction
Perspective Made Easy
Pictorial Composition: An Introduction
Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications
The Art of Photography
The Camera
The Classic Point of View
The Classic Point of View (Free Copy)
The Essence of Photography: Seeing and Creativity
The Painter's Secret Geometry - Introduction
The Print
The Negative
Other Recommended Books
>
Limelight
The Modern Century - Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
Websites
>
Art Renewal Center
Da Vinci Initiative
LensCulture
Magnum Photos
PragerU
The Golden Divider for the Arts
Videos
Articles and Videos
3 Reasons Why Most Photography Workshops Aren't Worth the Money
5 Approaches to Composition in Photography (And Why They Won't Teach You Anything About Design)
5 Books Every Photographer Should Have (Video)
5 Tips For Surviving a Photography Portfolio Review
An Email Addressing the Practical Use of Dynamic Symmetry in Art
Art Can't Be Taught?
Art Speak
Artist Robert Florczak: Classical Ideals Give Culture Depth
Camera Gear - Why I Shoot With a Leica
Camera Grids - Not a Tool for the Skilled Photographer
Composition 101: Starting With the Basics
Composition Can't Be Taught?
Composition Should Always Come First
Consistency, Persistence, and Talent
Dynamic Symmetry and Wildlife
Dynamic Symmetry for Photographers
Dynamic Symmetry and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Everyone's a Photographer
Feeling and Genius in Modern Art
Film vs. Digital
Great Compositions: Alfred Eisenstaedt
If Myron Barnstone Can't Do It, Why Do You Think You Can?
Intuition in Composition (Master Artists)
Intuitive Knowledge in Composition (Master Photographers)
Intuition in Composition: A Topic I Will Never Debate
Is Photography Art?
It's No Longer About Sales
Kenyon Cox on Modern Art and Composition
Learning the Rules of Composition and Then Breaking Them
Marketing vs. Real World Experience
Michel Jacobs on Rules and Laws in Composition
Misunderstanding the Decisive Moment
My Experience With Myron Barnstone
Practice Doesn't Always Guarantee Success
The Art of Seeing and Visual Literacy
The Art of Selection
The Atelier Approach to Art Education
The Armature of the Rectangle
The Da Vinci Initiative
The Difference Between a Fine Art Print and a Work of Art
The Gap Between Photography and Art
The Number One Reason Why a Work of Art Will Fail
The Place of Photography in Fine Art
What Are the Benefits of Atelier Training?
Why I Let Others Advertise for Me
Why Is Modern Art So Bad? (Video)
Why I Wrote a User's Guide for Artists and Photographers
Why Your Feelings Don't Matter
Art Highlights
Products
Leica Camera Mug
Contact