Sharing A Journey - Composition Vol. 2

Composition Vol. 2 continues the Sharing A Journey photography series by shifting the emphasis from learning the elements of composition to learning how to see what those elements actually do.

This volume introduces four more tools for creating stronger photographs—balance and proportion, timing, framing, and the rule of thirds—and then turns the reader loose on a series of visual choices. What happens when the subject moves? When the horizon changes? When an image is cropped differently, framed differently, balanced differently, or deliberately breaks one of photography’s familiar guidelines?

Rather than simply telling readers what looks good, Bruce Alan invites them to compare, question, and decide for themselves. The goal is to train the eye until composition becomes less about following rules and more about recognizing possibilities.

Designed for readers young and old alike, Sharing A Journey encourages you to develop your own creative instincts, experiment without fear of getting it “wrong,” and discover the choices that create the photographs you want to make.

Vol. 2 really does center on those four additional elements before moving into the long series of visual comparisons, so I think this description captures what makes the unusual one-chapter structure a strength rather than something to explain away.