Synopses & Reviews
Within the Frame is a book about finding and expressing your photographic vision, specifically where people, places, and cultures are concerned. A personal book full of real-world wisdom and incredible images, author David duChemin (of pixelatedimage.com) shows you both the how and the why of finding, chasing, and expressing your vision with a camera to your eye. Vision leads to passion, and passion is a cornerstone of great photography. With it, photographs draw the eye in and create an emotional experience. Without it, a photograph is often not worth—and can’t capture—a viewer’s attention.
Both instructional and inspirational, Within the Frame helps you on your photographic journey to make better images of the places and people you love, whether they are around the world or in your own backyard. duChemin covers how to tell stories, and the technology and tools we have at our disposal in order to tell those narratives. Most importantly, he stresses the crucial theme of vision when it comes to photographing people, places, and cultures—and he helps you cultivate and find your own vision, and then fit it within the frame.
Review
“If the book simply stayed right there in the realm of how-to, go-to advice, it would be a wonderful book indeed. But it crosses the line from useful to inspire because David opens up much more than his camera bag. He opens his considerable heart and mind, both of which belong to a masterful storyteller driven by an acute sympathy for the human condition, coupled with an intense curiosity and respect for both the differences and the sameness of the world.”
-Joe McNally, photographer, author of The Hot Shoe Diaries and The Moment It Clicks
"David does something here that few have ever done—he not only shows his absolutely captivating images, he shows the thought process behind those images, as well as how to start capturing the types of images we all long to take. People will be talking about this book for years to come. It’s that good!"
-Scott Kelby, photographer, author, President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Synopsis
Within the Frame is not another How To book on Photography; it's a Why-To book. It's a book about the passionate photography of people, places, and cultures. It is a book about chasing your vision on a global scale and telling those stories as clearly and passionately as possible with compelling photography.
David DuChemin takes you along on his own personal journey chasing his photographic vision around the world as he stops in the following exotic destinations: Prague, Kathmandu, Vietnam, and Samoa. Images created on the journey provide illustration and inspiration. Within the Frame will help you on your own journey as a photographer, as you learn to see, and learn to find and express your vision in clearer and clearer ways. Anyone who wants to shoot images of the places and people they love, whether or not they ever go around the world to do it, will find this book to be both instructional and inspirational.
Synopsis
In this personal book full of real-world wisdom and incredible images, duChemin shows budding photographers both the how and the why of finding, chasing, and expressing their vision with a camera. He covers how to tell stories, and the technology and tools available in order to tell those narratives.
About the Author
David duChemin has been creating compelling stories with a camera in hand for over twenty years. An impassioned travel and humanitarian photographer, David has shot on five continents for assignments and projects covering places as diverse as Paris, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. David's portfolio can be found online at www.pixelatedimage.com.
Table of Contents
chapter one It’s About Vision
chapter two
Within the Frame
chapter three
The Artist and the Geek
chapter four
Storytelling
chapter five
Photographing People
chapter six
Photographing Places
chapter seven
Photographing Culture
chapter eight
Final Thoughts
Afterword, by Vincent Versace
Index