Photographing the World Around You: A Visual Design Workshop

“Photographing the World Around You, second edition, offers readers valuable information on the essential building blocks of visual design, including light, shape, line and perspective. Freeman Patterson provides clear and concise instruction on how to use this foundation to create balance, proportion and rhythm in photographs.”
This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in moving past taking snapshot and postcard type shots, into truly artistic images. It talks about basic features (exposure, depth of field, color vs. black-and-white, aperture, shutter speed, white balance) and the dangers involved in the digital process, but, behind a few technical explanations, Mr. Patterson gives you his approach and what inspired him to take each one of the photos in the book.
It opens your mind to see lines, textures and shapes around you, to balance, proportionate and find a rhythm in the surrounding objects arrangement. There are different chapters for Humans, Human Constructions and Manufactured Objects, and Nature. Freeman teaches you how to explore the environment in a seek for a subject, and, how to evaluate your pictures in order to become a better photographer with each shot.